Gibbon Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Penguin Classics, 2001. — 848 p. — ISBN10: 0140437649, ISBN13: 978-0140437645Spanning 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 reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement.