The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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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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Weight 0.573 kg
Dimensions 3.6 × 12.8 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

848

Publisher

Year Published

2000-6-19

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0140437649

About The Author

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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