Stephen Coote SAMUEL PEPYS: A LIFE.

Stephen Coote SAMUEL PEPYS: A LIFE. of the present day York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xiii, 386 $2795 ISBN 0-321-23929-7

Stephen Coote has produc the kind of popular history that is repeatedly purchased and seldom read. No doubt, copies will pretty soon appear in second hand bookshop alongside Arthur Bryant's trilogy, Samuel Pepy (1933-39) Like his predecessor, Coote has produc a predictable biography, which relies heavily upon the famous Diary as a source of evidence rather than as a literary document.

Pepy common of the most famous Englishmen of the Restoration, issues across as flat and

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