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Published by The Viking Press, 1972
Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Paperback; 18th printing; The Viking Portable Library, P60; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Product description: The modern reader's version of a towering work of world literature retaining the core of Gibbon's 6 volumes.
Published by Penguin Classics, 1982
ISBN 10: 0140431896ISBN 13: 9780140431896
Seller: Karmakollisions, Molesey, SURRE, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Condition: (see pics.) Abridged version by Dero A. Saunders. Cover rubbed with crease to the front. Still in a very good, clean and tight condition. Synopsis:A compact and manageable version of this epic. It traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. 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".