Audio book and abridged. He certainly lived in momentus times. My only quibble with this text was the compilers went to the trouble to translate Pepys's short hand back to text but failed to translate the portions written in French or Spanish to English. I don't have command enough of those languages for those passages to be meaningful. Just put it all in English! On the other hand my suspicion is most of those passages were relating to his dalliances with women other than his wife so ... probably best to miss it anyway.