The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- ISBN 13:
9780140431896
- ISBN 10:
0140431896
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/30/1983
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary
'Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the ancient with the modern ages, ' noted Thomas Carlyle. 'And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries.' Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment--the illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literature--seemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction.