Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

Published 1 February 1954

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.