This column’s title is borrowed from Edward Gibbons’ epic tome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," written in 1776. I didn’t read it (it’s 3,500 pages), but Gibbons’ famous message is timeless ...
EDWARD GIBBON—D. M. Low—Random House ($3.50). For most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now ...
COUNT BELISARIUS—Robert Graves— Random House ($3). Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline ...
insider.si.edu: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, Esq. ..
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, Esq. ..
insider.si.edu: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, with notes by the Rev. H.H. Milman; a new ed., to which is added a complete index of the whole work
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, with notes by the Rev. H.H. Milman; a new ed., to which is added a complete index of the whole work ...
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon, with notes by the Rev. H.H. Milman; a new ed., to which is added a complete index of the whole work
JSTOR Daily: Preface to the Issue "Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Daedalus, Vol. 105, No. 3, Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Summer, 1976), pp. v-vi (2 pages) ...