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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1 (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1, Band 1) - Softcover

Gibbon, Edward

 
9780140433937: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1 (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140433937 ISBN 13: 9780140433937
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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 events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes one and two, Gibbon charts the vast extent and constitution of the Empire from the reign of Augustus to 395 ad. And in a controversial critique, he examines the early Church, with fascinating accounts of the first Christian and last pagan emperors, Constantine and Julian.

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David Womersley (External Editor, Introducer)
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

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Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140433937
ISBN 13 
9780140433937
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
1232
Herausgeber
Womersley David
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