History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume I by Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume I

Edward Gibbon

610 pages first pub 1788 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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EDWARD GIBBON (1737-1794), born in Putney, Surrey. He was a sickly child and his education at Westminster and Magdalen College, Oxford, was irregular. At the age of 16 he became Catholic. Within weeks of his conversion, the adolescent was removed ...

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