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    Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. inom - audiobook

    Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its epic scope. Remarkably accurate for its day, Gibbon's treatise holds a high place in the history of literature and remains an enduring subject of 's monumental work traces the history of more than thirteen centuries, covering the great events as well as the general historical progression. This first volume covers AD AD to AD , which includes the reign of Augustus, the establishment of Christianity, and the Crusades.

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    Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. inom - audiobook

    Autor:

    Edward Gibbon

    Lektor:

    Mayes Bernard

    Wydawnictwo:

    Gardners

    Język wydania:

    angielski

    Język oryginału:

    angielski

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    16 min.

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    Memoirs of My Life and Writings

    book about Edward Gibbon

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings () is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years. Lord Sheffield's editing has been praised for its ingenuity and taste, but blamed for its unscholarly aggressiveness. Since several other editions of the work have appeared, more in accordance with modern standards. Gibbon's Memoirs are considered one of the first autobiographies in the modern sense of the word, and have a secure place in the canon of English literature.

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    Gibbon begins with an account of his ancestors before moving on to his birth and education, which was partly private and partly at Westminster School. He matriculated as a student at Oxford University, an institution which he found at a low ebb.

    To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and s

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    What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

    For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epic poetry to contemporary novels. How did literature develop? What forms has it taken? And what can we learn from engaging with these works today? Hosted by Jacke Wilson, an amateur scholar with a lifelong passion for literature, The History of Literature takes a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known.

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    Since the first publication of his six-volume magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon () has been ranked among the greatest historians who ever lived.

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