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The joys of excess

By Samuel , Pepys

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2011
ISBN
978-0-14-196603-8, 0141966033
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2141136 bytes)
Series
Penguin Great Food 14
Pages
83\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords and ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys's diaries provide a frank, high-spirited and vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence -- and the side-effects afterwards.

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