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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...Show more
Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon
Category: Biography
" ...]daughter of the Edgars, who flourished about four hundred years in the county of Suffolk, and produced an eminent and wealthy serjeant-at-law, Sir Gregory Edgar, in the reign of Henry the Seventh. Of the sons of Robert Gibbon, (who died in 1643, ) Matthew did not aspire above the station of a line ...Show more
The Christians & the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Category: Non-Fiction
Famously sceptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how political leaders often achieve the exact opposite of what they intend, Gibbon was both alert to the broad pattern of events and the significant revealing detail. A ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appea ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6 by Edward Gibbon
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
This boxed set of Volumes 4-6 (The Eastern Empire) completes the Everyman set. Volumes 1-3 (The Western Empire) were published in 1993. Even after 200 years, Gibbon's book is still an authoritative work on Roman history.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Edward Gibbon
Category: Classics
Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volumes 4-6 Box set by Edward Gibbon
Category: Classics
Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the eve ...Show more
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