Edward Gibbon

628 books • 21 series

Edward Gibbon was a member of the English parliament, a historian, and a writer. On May 8, 1737, he was born, and on January 16, 1794, he died. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, came out in six parts between 1776 and 1788. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, the way it uses first-hand sources, and the way it criticizes organized religion in a polemical way. After getting sick in 1752, Gibbon went to Bath to get better. When he was 15, his father sent him to Oxford to study as a gentleman commoner at Magdalen College. But he didn't fit in well at college, and he later said that the 14 months he spent there were the "most useless and unprofitable" of his life. He lived in Lausanne for five years and read works by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and Blaise Pascal. He also traveled around Switzerland to study the constitutions of its cantons.
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The History of the Decliine and Fall of the Empire

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Cover of Histoire de La Decadence Et de La Chute de L'Empire Romain (5)

Histoire de La Decadence Et de La Chute de L'Empire Romain (5)

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An Abridgment of Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2

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Life of Mahomet

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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq; With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq (Volume 2); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume II of VI)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume IV of VI)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume I of VI)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume VI of VI)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume III of VI)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume V of VI)

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the Use of Families and Young Persons (Volume 3); Reprinted from the Original Text, with the Careful Omission of All Passagers of an Irreligious Tendency

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8; Complete in Eight Volumes

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 7

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The Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 4)

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The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle

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Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Repr. with the Omission of All Passages of an Irreligious or Immoral Tendency, by T. Bowdler (Volume 4)

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Cover of The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq (4); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq (4); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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Cover of The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq (Volume 5); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq (Volume 5); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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The Life of Ed. Gibbon

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Cover of The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 5); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 5); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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Cover of The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 3); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 3); With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

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Cover of The Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 13)

The Works of Edward Gibbon (Volume 13)