The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

Edward Gibbon, Daniel J. Boorstin

928 pages first pub 1776 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
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'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my m...

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