Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)
By Edward Gibbon
Illustrated by Gian Battista Piranesi
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
By Edward Gibbon
Illustrated by Gian Battista Piranesi
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Part of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Category: Ancient World History | Classic Nonfiction
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Jan 28, 2013 | ISBN 9780812984835
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Praise
“Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians.”—Professor J. B. Bury
“Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost—a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social convulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indicate convulsions which shake the whole world today.”—E. M. Forster
“I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.”—Winston Churchill
“Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages.”—Thomas Carlyle
“Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind. . . . We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air.”—Virginia Woolf
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