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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Edward Gibbon

  

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Edward Gibbon : ?The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of an afternoon and read a little — Browning or Gibbon.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      Print: Book
  

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