Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Edward Gibbon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461373734 ISBN 13: 9780461373738

Publisher: HardPress, 1826

Synopsis

Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published by Edward Gibbon. This volume presents a curated life and correspondence surrounding the English historian Edward Gibbon. It compiles autobiographical sketches, letters, and introductions from the edition edited by Hunt and Clarke, including the Sequel to the Life of Edward Gibbon. The included letters—mostly to his close friend Lord Sheffield and other correspondents—cover his late-life experiences: his retirement to Lausanne, his health, finances, and literary projects; his reactions to the French Revolution and European politics; and his reflections on England, Geneva, and Switzerland. The collection illuminates Gibbon's character—his wit, scholarly discipline, and moral sentiments—and provides a rare, intimate portrait of a man balancing a prodigious historical career with a private life of letters and friendship. It also contains Sheffield's introductions and notes, which frame the biography and provide context for the letters and the life of the subject. Readers gain insight into Gibbon's daily life in Lausanne, his affection for his friends, his struggles with gout, his finances, and his long-term plan to publish a new edition of his History; the book includes his opinion on political strategies, ministerial shifts, and global events such as the American War and the French Revolution. The volume stands as a primary-source companion to Gibbon's own published histories, revealing the man behind the monumental narrative and offering a rare vantage on late 18th-century intellectual life.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1826
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461373734
• ISBN 13: 9780461373738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398