Download or read book Essai Sur L tude de la Litt rature written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete edition of Gibbon's 'Essai', with original footnotes, variants and unpublished chapter, a contextual introduction and a commentary on each chapter.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon written by Karen O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots, contemporary European contexts, literary style and thematic scale of Gibbon's achievement. Alongside the History, it gives an introduction to Gibbon's other works, including the Memoirs he left unfinished at his death and previously unpublished material. Leading international scholars in the fields of classics, geography, history and literature provide a comprehensive account of Gibbon's monumental account of decline, fall and global historical transformation.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon written by Edward Gibbon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 2855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon is a monumental literary achievement, encompassing Gibbon's celebrated magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. This seminal work offers a meticulous and comprehensive account of the Roman Empire's collapse, blending historical analysis with philosophical reflections. Gibbon's narrative style is characterized by its elegance, clarity, and erudition, making it a cornerstone of historical literature. The collection also includes Gibbon's lesser-known works, shedding light on his diverse interests and intellectual prowess. Overall, the Collected Works showcase Gibbon's unmatched ability to engage readers with complex historical themes, making it a must-read for scholars and history enthusiasts alike. Edward Gibbon, a renowned historian and member of the Enlightenment era, was uniquely positioned to undertake such a monumental historical project. His meticulous research, insightful commentary, and engaging narrative style set him apart as a leading figure in the field of history. Gibbon's intellectual curiosity and dedication to scholarship shine through in his works, establishing him as a foundational figure in the study of ancient history. I highly recommend The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon to anyone seeking a deep dive into the history of the Roman Empire and the wider implications of historical decline. Gibbon's masterful storytelling and rigorous analysis make this collection an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of historical narratives.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward Gibbon History Books Essays Autobiographical Writings written by Edward Gibbon and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 2848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book EDWARD GIBBON Historical Works Memoirs Letters Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 2848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Edward Gibbon's historical works, memoirs & letters. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. 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
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Barry Jones and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post‑industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
Download or read book The Transformation of the Roman World written by Lynn White (Jr.) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall Craven Yorkshire By C J Stewart With plates written by Frances Mary Richardson CURRER and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library Collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall Craven Yorkshire written by Frances Mary Richardson Currer and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re reading La relecture written by Rachel Falconer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we re-read a familiar book? Does the second encounter turn us into experts, more knowing and confident in our relation to the text? Or conversely, does it expose the gaps and limits of each reading experience? Does re-reading affirm our own sense of identity, reconnecting us to earlier memories, or does it shock and destabilize, revealing discontinuities between past and present selves? Is re-reading uncanny, a discovery of the familiar in the unfamiliar, or the reverse? Do certain literary devices and tropes – symbols, allegories, for example, depend on re-reading to be activated? Are there some texts that can only be re-read? Re-reading is rarely discussed in depth yet it forms the core of most conversations about literature, for we rarely become passionate or critical about books we have only read once. It is also re-reading that consolidates a core of texts into what we recognise to be a canon of literature, and it is re-reading, again, that breaks open the canon and reshapes it. We re-read alone, but we also re-read communally, in the shared space of the theatre, or in the translation of a text from one culture to another, or one medium to another. Re-reading is a necessary part of the professional reader’s life yet there is often, in the history of the individual scholar, some formative relationship with a text read obsessively in childhood. This bilingual volume of essays brings together an international group of eminent scholars in order to reflect on this process of re-reading, in honour of Graham Falconer, Professor of 19th century French literature, and long-term re-reader. The essays vary from personal reflections on formative childhood reading, and self-reflexive scholarly re-readings, to analysis of the theme of re-reading in texts, and presentation of new theories of re-reading. Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Eugène Fromentin, Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Roland Petit, H. G. Wells and Anthony Hope are amongst the authors re-visited in these reflections on the practice of re-reading.
Download or read book The Universal Biographical Dictionary written by John Watkins (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Universal Biographical and Historical Dictionary collected from the best authorities by J W written by John Watkins (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain written by Benjamin Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Indexes of Authors and Subjects and a List of Historical Pamphlets Chronologically Arranged written by Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature. For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature. The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website. Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in English.
