The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Beautifully written, "Decline and Fall" is a timeless classic which serves as a perceptive guide not just to Rome and its empire but to every civilization before and since. Here, this masterpiece has been cut down to a manageable size, complete with scabrous and entertaining footnotes detailing the decadence that led to the fall of Rome.

giant of Enlightenment literature, Edward Gibbon (1737-94) was born in Putney, a village then near London. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and was later a member of parliament in London. It was on the Grand Tour in 1763 when he first visited Rome and conceived the idea of a grand history centred on the Eternal City and its empire. It is one of the great historical works.