Author: Edward Gibbon
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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ISBN: 9781332797202
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With an Essay The story of Gibbon's life as he himself tells it was first given to the world by his friend, Lord Sheffield, who included it among the author's Miscellaneous Works in an edition published after his death. He had left six sketches of several periods of his life; he was apparently quite satisfied with none of them; they varied in form, and were written Without regard to order of time. Lord Sheffield put them together, scru pulously respecting the text, and where they were too meagre, he sup plied material from the author's journals, and himself appended the notes, signed with an S. In this edition. He continued Gibbon's life from the point at which the Memoir leaves it, up to the time of his death, and he published with it a large number of his letters, running in date from 1756 to 1793; he preferred thus to let the author, as far as possible, tell his own story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332797202
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With an Essay The story of Gibbon's life as he himself tells it was first given to the world by his friend, Lord Sheffield, who included it among the author's Miscellaneous Works in an edition published after his death. He had left six sketches of several periods of his life; he was apparently quite satisfied with none of them; they varied in form, and were written Without regard to order of time. Lord Sheffield put them together, scru pulously respecting the text, and where they were too meagre, he sup plied material from the author's journals, and himself appended the notes, signed with an S. In this edition. He continued Gibbon's life from the point at which the Memoir leaves it, up to the time of his death, and he published with it a large number of his letters, running in date from 1756 to 1793; he preferred thus to let the author, as far as possible, tell his own story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
MEMOIRS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ.
Author: EDWARD. GIBBON
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ISBN: 9781033995716
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9781033995716
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
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.
Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, esq., with an Essay
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385555027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385555027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Autobiography
Author: Edward Gibbon
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385523400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385523400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. with Memoirs of His Life and Writings: Miscellaneous
Author: Edward Gibbon
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History
Author: Charlotte Roberts
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191014907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity; oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The constant interplay between style and substance, or between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from his reception of established and innovative historiographical conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191014907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity; oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition. Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The constant interplay between style and substance, or between the particular details of composition and the larger patterns of argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from his reception of established and innovative historiographical conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure, than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.
Edward Gibbon: History Books, Essays & Autobiographical Writings
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8075835670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2848
Book Description
This unique collection of Edward Gibbon's history books, essays & autobiographical writings has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, unusual at the time, its methodology became a model for later historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first modern historian of ancient Rome. Table of Contents: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Memoirs of My Life and Writings Private Letters of Edward Gibbon Gibbon - Biography by J. C. Morison
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8075835670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2848
Book Description
This unique collection of Edward Gibbon's history books, essays & autobiographical writings has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, unusual at the time, its methodology became a model for later historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first modern historian of ancient Rome. Table of Contents: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Memoirs of My Life and Writings Private Letters of Edward Gibbon Gibbon - Biography by J. C. Morison