Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Жанр: Wordsworth
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998
«Gibbon's «The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire», published between 1776 and 1788, is generally acknowledged to be a masterpiece of English historical writing. Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the 2nd-century AD, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included and a list of emperors.»