Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Softcover

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: a modern abridgement

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 311 pages. text tanned, cover worn 'I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immedi ately dominated by both the story and the style, ' recalled Winston Churchill. ' I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes.' In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses some 1,300 year s as it swings across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- has refused to go the wa y of many 'classics' and grow musty on the shelves. 'Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost -- a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social c onvulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indic ate convulsions which shake the whole world today, ' wrote E.M. Forster. Never f ar below the surface of the magnificent narrative lies the author's wit and swee ping irony, exemplified by Gibbon's famous definition of history as 'little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.'. Artikel-Nr. 3022dx

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