The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
- Length
- 477 mornings, about 2,300 words a reading
About the book
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbon’s history of Rome and its heirs across some thirteen centuries. It was published in London in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, and Gibbon wrote its last lines at Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 27, 1787. In the book’s closing paragraph he says he first conceived the idea among the ruins of the Capitol in Rome, and that the work had occupied nearly twenty years of his life. The text follows Henry Hart Milman’s 1845 edition, but all footnotes, including Gibbon’s own, are left out.
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