

Memoirs of My Life
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 12/01/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Edward Gibbon
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 12/01/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), an English historian and member of Parliament, had little formal education. He went to Oxford, but was forced to leave when he converted to Roman Catholicism. His family then sent him to Lausanne, where he was reconverted to Protestantism. His most important work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
By this point, I am much too enamored of Mr. Gibbon to be an impartial judge. I read his work with an almost religious awe. Indeed, Gibbon’s temper is almost that of a sage: not in his kindness or goodness, but in his calm curiosity. It is a truism of psychology that negative experiences make more......more
This was a fascinating autobiography of the author of the epic Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Can you imagine living in England, France, and Switzerland during the mid- to late-eighteenth century? This is what fascinated me most about the book because it was a time of massive change and the h......more