Edward Gibbon

Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1778, 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 pr.
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ISBN
9781853264993
Autores
Edward Gibbon
Idiomas
Inglés
Año de publicación
1999
Editorial
Wordsworth
Categoría
Ensayo histórico
Géneros
Historia, Historia de Europa, Historia y arqueología, Classics, Historia de Europa: romanos
Páginas
1089
Peso
0.685