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'‘This astonishing and monumental work may fairly take its place alongside Gibbon, and for much the same array of qualities: a majestic view of five hundred years of history, done in great style, with vast erudition and a continuously entertaining idiosyncrasy of judgement’
ALISTAIR COOKE
‘To define Western culture is the most delicate and difficult of all operations. Jacques Barzun is one of the most cultivated exemplars of Western civilization and his book contains the experience and the reflection of a lifetime. He tells us not to judge past centuries by our standards and to recognize that, however different, those centuries have made us what we are.’
NOEL ANNAN
‘Jacques Barzun’s summa is the work of a very great historian and of a seer. The phrase from the Bible in apposite: “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye” is his great gift – and a gift to his readers.’
JOHN LUKACS
‘From Dawn to Decadence is a personal, witty, learned, bold, and above all wise retrospect of the past half-millennium. One will read it through with mounting interest, and then go back again and again to savour favourite parts of it’
GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xviii 877p large paperback, illustrated cover with gilt lettering, good condition, light wear to covers and edges, small bookplate to title page, light pencil marks to a few pages, generally very neat and bright, a good copy from the bookshelf of a Cambridge historian Language: English. Seller Inventory # 221334
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 876 pages. Excellent, clean and tightly bound copy. Previous owner's name inked on first page. Size: Approx 6" Wide and 9" Tall. Seller Inventory # 004069
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First UK edition paperback, 2001, in overall near fine condition with only slight signs of handling and storage - spine lightly faded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. This book weighs 1.4kg. Not an old library book. Photograph available. Seller Inventory # 122986