{"product_id":"2026100008764-secondhand-memoirs-of-my-life","title":"Memoirs Of My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Slipcase: Good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the towering 18th-century historian whose masterwork, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, reshaped the Western understanding of antiquity. Assembled posthumously from six fragmentary manuscripts, this deeply personal account chronicles Gibbon's solitary childhood, his formative years at Oxford (which he famously dismissed as the most idle and unprofitable of his life), his doomed romance with Suzanne Curchod, and the singular scholarly devotion that gave birth to his magnum opus.\n\nEdited and introduced by the distinguished classicist Betty Radice, this Folio Society edition presents Gibbon's prose at its most revealing — urbane, ironic, and ruthlessly self-aware. Far from a conventional confession, the text illuminates the making of a great mind, tracing the intersection of private experience and public intellectual achievement in Enlightenment-era Britain. Gibbon's wit is razor-sharp and his erudition effortless, making this memoir as much a portrait of an age as of a man — leaving the reader to wonder what the complete work might have revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342761107675,"sku":"2026100008764-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/be40fe04-edb4-4ae3-83f4-76ae6ff2a623.png?v=1790048681","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008764-secondhand-memoirs-of-my-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}