The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Volume 1
$40.19
- Paperback
1232 pages
- Release Date
6 March 1996
Summary
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers.
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 disastro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433937 |
| Author: | Edward Gibbon, David Womersley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1232 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 6 March 1996 |
| Weight: | 841g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 54mm |
| Series: | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Edward Gibbon
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.
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