Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 6

by Edward Gibbon

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Edward Gibbon & Gian Battista Piranesi

"I devoured Gibbon," wrote Winston Churchill. "I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all." Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses thirteen hundred years of history, swinging across...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I: A.D. 180 to A.D. 395 (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Edward Gibbon, Gian Battista Piranesi & Daniel J. Boorstin

'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and...

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

by Edward Gibbon, Gian Battista Piranesi & Daniel J. Boorstin

This Modern Library eBook edition collects all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.

Edward Gibbon’s...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged)

by Edward Gibbon & Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin

Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 1185 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

by Edward Gibbon & Gian Battista Piranesi

"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it...