This is an abridged edition of Gibbon's classic. Concentrating on the centuries from the age of the Antonines to the fall of the empire in the West, this volume chronicles "the triumph of barbarism and religion" in the disruption of the unified empire, the rise of Christianity, the progress of the Huns from China and the revolt of the Goths.
- ISBN10 0140952659
- ISBN13 9780140952650
- Publish Date 1 November 1996 (first published 1 February 1954)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 1998
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Penguin USA
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 3616
- Language English