The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Author: Womersley, David, Gibbon, Edward, Womersley, David, Womersley, David

Ancient Rome

Published on 19 June 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 848 pages
198 x 129 x 37 | 578g

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.