Samuel Pepys endures as one of the most famous figures in English literature. He was in fact two men, not one: the warm and supremely human confessor of the Diary and an extraordinary hypocrite. Previous biographers tended to rationalise the darker side of his characters or to explain away his conduct as socially acceptable in his day. Vincent Brome's biography is the first to face up to the contradictions in Pepys' personality. The Other Pepys is a gripping, frank yet sympathetic portrait.
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