The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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by Edward Gibbon

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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 history Ancient 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.

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