How'd you like the Penguin print of Gibbon? I tried to read another publishing house's version some years back, but dropped it due to poorly-done endnotes and a shinier distraction (like a new Steven Brust paperback or something).
Well, Gibbon is on the one hand awesome, but on the other hand this edition has none of the critical apparatus I would've wanted. Gibbon footnotes himself compulsively, but the modern editor did not add to the notes with translating foreign passages, clarifying, or even pointing out errors, That's the edition I'd like to read.
As it stands, I was at a party, and someone thrust this copy in my hands and told me to take it, and it is a great book, so I cannot complain at all, really.
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As it stands, I was at a party, and someone thrust this copy in my hands and told me to take it, and it is a great book, so I cannot complain at all, really.
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