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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1-3: Volumes 1, 2, 3 (Hardcover)

by Edward Gibbon (Author)

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Hardcover: 704 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library (Oct 26 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679423087
ISBN-13: 978-0679423089
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 11.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 2.2 Kg

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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With sweeping grandeur, Gibbon's masterpiece is enhanced by Naxos' production, which includes dramatic, classical music and two British narrators whose voices ooze with intellectual authority. The music--often somber--soars into majestic crescendos as the fate of the great Empire is sealed. Between straight readings of the text, one of the narrators announces a summary of the next chapter or two, an abridging technique particularly effective here. Little, if any, of the effect of Gibbon's accessible and profound prose is lost, even when detail must perforce vanish. A gripping history, this is superbly presented by Naxos. D.W. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A magistrally written sequel, April 6 2004

By	Roberto P. De Ferraz "ferraz9" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 4-6: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 (Hardcover)

Edward Gibbon is the most talented British historian of all times and "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is his acclaimed masterwork, an opus which should be included in whatever list of the 100 most important literary works of all times. The first three books, elegantly featured on a velvet green cover and boxed together in picturally attractive white cardbox, cover the decline and fall of the so-called Western Empire, seated alternately in Rome or Verona in Italy in the end of the V century A.D., and I read it with respect and awe in no more than a month (see the pertinent review). The sequel, again presented with all the elegance the opus deserves, is composed of three voluminous books, totalling again some 2.000 pages and covering the period after the fall of Rome to the barbarians of the Visigoth Allaric and others, where the power and the Empire has moved its see to Constantinople (Byzantium) in the East. The Crusades and the likeness of the prophet Mohamed are there, although from the preconcept and biased view of a retrograde XVIII English colonizer who likened the Arabs to savages and women to a second class position in society.
This second series of book is as good and lenghty as the first series, something which is in itself an almost unattainable goal to any sequel such as this, and Gibbon has once again the reader's attention suspended on a perpetual state of anxiety, always looking forward to read in the next sequence of words a point of view or a descriptive text magistrally written about human boldness and courage in the event of victory, or else the picture of the frailties of human soul when facing impending danger. His polemical portrait of Empress Theodora (according to him a former prostitute) is unequaled to anything written before or after him, specially the part where it was to her that the fleeing emperor Athanasius owe the maintenance of his wavering will and his imperial rule.
The erudition of Edward Gibbon is unparalelled and he unassumedly cites many ancient writters in Greek, Latin, French and other languages, letting solely to the reader the not so easy task of translating it into English. His English is elegant and unexpected and the avail of a handy good English dictionary of archaic words will be a helpfull tool to the reader. His sources are profuse and diversified and whenever he has the opportunity, he traces the parallel of ancient history with contemporary and imperial England in the making.
In my opinion, the misconcepts of some of his views notwithstanding, this is one of the most important works concerning the fall of Rome ever done and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is Gibbon still worth reading?, Oct 24 2009

By	Jeanne R. Bradley "just one opinion" (Vancouver, B.C.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Most might think that an 18th Century historian would have long passed his due date, but Gibbon would prove them wrong. This edition comes with a fine introduction (Trevor-Roper) and is annotated where Gibbon may have erred, but his scholarship is usually impeccable. His fluid eloquence, depth of study, the fascinating nature of the topic, and the good price for a relatively well bound edition (printed and bound in Germany) make this purchase a very wise one. It may look good on the shelf but it stimulates even more in the reading.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peerless history, Feb 13 2004

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Edward Gibbon's masterpiece is not only the finest work of history in the English language, it is also one of its greatest narratives.

No writer can fail to learn from how Gibbon used his incredible command of sources and texts to fashion his work; no student of the classic world can fail to learn from Gibbon's wealth of detail; no educated person can fail to learn from his depiction of the corruption and collapse of a once-mighty empire.

Modern historians pooh-pooh Gibbon's "bias" and "slant" and insinuate that the mighty world of professional academic history "gets" the subject in a way Gibbon did not. Gibbon was a man, of course, and his word is not final. Yet the difference is that while historians today are blind to their own equally crippling prejudices, Gibbon wears his ones on his sleeve and nevertheless dares his detractors to doubt his erudition and achievement. They are pedants, but he is the Master.

I find it interesting that while Gibbon had no formal training in history whatsoever, men and women today must spend close to a decade labouring over some insignificant point in the record to become a "real" historian. A telling point.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Essential, Important, but over-rated
You've got to read Gibbon, IMO, to be educated about separation of Church and State, about the history of ideas, and, as many have noted, about Roman and Christian history... Read more

Published on May 24 2004 by J. Kowalski

5.0 out of 5 stars The collapse of Rome and the western world explained.
The quite voluminous "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is one of the most important books of all times, and is of special interest to the reader who wants to go the... Read more

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This is an extremely resourceful book. If someone needs a brief overview of the Roman times, this could be it. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Its really impossle that there have lived men that know so much, and have brought together so many facts, numbers, stories and sources that they can write a book like this. Read more

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