Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a ''revolution which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth''.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as ''a bri...
The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a ''revolution which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth''.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as ''a bri...
