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Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 28 Selected Chapters

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Gibbon’s The History of the 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 in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 – an enthralling account by ‘the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment’. This edition includes Gibbon’s footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a précis if the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors. —Back cover

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Series Title

Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

Call Number

937.06

Publisher

Hertfordshire, UK : Wordsworth Editions Limited., 1998

Collation

xxxiv, 1056 hlm. : peta ; 20 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853264993

Classification

937.06

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Edition

Abridged.

Subject(s)

Italian Peninsula: Empire 31 B.C.-476 A.D.
History: Ancient - Rome

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Statement of Responsibility

Edited and annotated, with an Introduction by Antony Lentin and Brian Norman

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