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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

Edward Gibbon

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2014-04-17
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresHistory / Ancient / RomeHistory / Europe / GeneralLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	110807216X9781108072168
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fmYZAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796.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 taking in his education, travels, and career as a historian, 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, together with 210 other letters to and from Gibbon, takes up Volume 1. His 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.