Diary vs Marlborough: Which Should You Read?

Diary Samuel Pepys · 1825 ★★★★☆ 4.2 16 pages · ≈ 18 min · Challenging

“Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.”

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary…

Marlborough Winston S. Churchill · 1933 ★★★★☆ 4.3 488 pages · ≈ 9 h 02 m · Challenging

"Marlborough: His Life and Times is an exhaustive, four-volume panegyric biography, in which Churchill defends his ancestor against claims of war-mongering and charlatanism made by Thomas Macaulay, a 19th-century…