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Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.

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Books5

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V

1788
The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire

The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire

1788
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1776
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ? Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ? Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

1776
The Christians and the Fall of Rome

The Christians and the Fall of Rome

1776

Collections2

The Glory of Greece & Rome: A 24-Volume Anthology: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Annals, Germania, The Roman History, The Antiquities of Jews, Conquests of Alexander the Great

The Glory of Greece & Rome: A 24-Volume Anthology: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Annals, Germania, The Roman History, The Antiquities of Jews, Conquests of Alexander the Great

with Gaius Julius Caesar, Plutarch and Polybius

The Age of Enlightenment: An anthology of eighteenth-century texts: Volume 1

The Age of Enlightenment: An anthology of eighteenth-century texts: Volume 1

1979

with Voltaire, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and George Whitefield