Medienkombination, Englisch, 1476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 3480 g
With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself
Medienkombination, Englisch, 1476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 3480 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
ISBN: 978-1-108-07218-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Gibbon had written six manuscript accounts of his own life, and, according to Sheffield, had always intended to publish his autobiography in his lifetime. The memoir as edited by Sheffield begins with Gibbon's family history and finishes with his anxiety over the future of Europe in 1788. Sheffield then continues the story until Gibbon's death through his correspondence, providing a linking narrative, and this takes up Volume 1. Volume 2 presents other unpublished papers, including comments on his reading, and an outline for a history of the world. Gibbon's great work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is also reissued (in the 1896–1900 edition by J. B. Bury) in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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Volume 1: Preface; The author's introduction; Anecdotes of the author's life; Appendix of 210 letters to and from Edward Gibbon. Volume 2: Preface; 1. Abstract of the books Mr Gibbon read, with reflections; 2. Extracts from his journal; 3. A collection of his remarks, and detached pieces, on different subjects; 4. Outlines of the history of the world; 5. Essai sur l'étude de la littérature; 6. Critical observations on the design of the sixth book of the Aeneid; 7. A dissertation on the subject of 'L'homme au masque de fer'; 8. Mémoire justicatif pour servir de réponse; 9. A vindication of some passages in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 10. Antiquities of the house of Brunswick; 11. An address; Index.
