About the Book: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788,
is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only
perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental
quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this
edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the
history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in
1453- an enthralling account by the greatest of the historians of the
Enlightenment. This edition includes Gibbons footnotes and quotations, here
translated for