The Joys of Excess

by Samuel Pepys

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241956382
• ISBN13: 9780241956380
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher