Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Classics of World Literature
ISBN-10
1853264997
ISBN-13
9781853264993
Edition
New
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 1998
Print length
1088 Pages
Weight
768 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.50 x 5.80 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAncient history: to c 500 CE
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Published between 1776 and 1788, this text is acknowledged as a masterpiece of English historical writing. Covering the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, this edition includes footnotes, explanatory comments, and a precis of the chapters not included.
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 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 precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.
This edition includes Gibbon''s footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.
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