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Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was a sickly child from a wealthy English family. At sixteen he converted to Catholicism at Oxford, and his father sent him to Lausanne, where he returned to Protestantism and educated himself in history and languages. In Rome in 1764, sitting among the ruins of the Capitol, he conceived the idea of writing about the city's decline.
The six volumes of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, cover more than thirteen centuries, from the Antonine emperors to the fall of Constantinople, in a famously elegant and ironic style. His chapters on the rise of Islam were remarkably sympathetic for their time.
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2Edward Gibbon
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- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5Edward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6Edward Gibbon
- Memoirs of My Life and WritingsEdward Gibbon
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions Edward Gibbon
- Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)Edward Gibbon
- Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 01Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 02Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 03Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 04Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 05Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 06Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 07Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 08Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 09Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 10Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 11Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 12Edward Gibbon
- Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 13Edward Gibbon
- Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 — Folio formatEdward Gibbon
- The student's Gibbon : the history of the decline and fall of the Roman empireEdward Gibbon
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Edward Gibbon; ed., with introduction and notes, by Oliver Farrar EmersonEdward Gibbon
- The auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, esq., illus. from his letters, with occasional notes and narrativesEdward Gibbon
- The life of Edward Gibbon, with selections from his correspondence and illustrationsEdward Gibbon
- England and America. A comparison of the social and political state of both nationsEdward Gibbon
- The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empireEdward Gibbon
- Gibbon's journal to January 28th, 1763, My journal I, II & III and EphemeridesEdward Gibbon
- Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, esq. With an essay by William D. HowellsEdward Gibbon
- Histoire de la décadence et la chute de l'Empire romainEdward Gibbon
- Memoirs of Edward Gibbon written by himself : and a selection from his letters with occasional notes and narrative by John lord SheffieldEdward Gibbon
- AutobiographyEdward Gibbon
- The autobiographies of Edward Gibbon. Printed verbatim from hitherto unpublished mss., with an introduction by the Earl of Sheffield. Ed. byEdward Gibbon
- The miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. with memoirs of his life and writingsEdward Gibbon
- Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, esq., with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himselfEdward Gibbon
- A letter from Sydney, and other writingsEdward Gibbon
- England and AmericaEdward Gibbon
- History of Christianity: comprising all that relates to the progress of the Christian religion in "The history of the decline and fall of thEdward Gibbon
- Mexico under Carranza; a lawyer's indictment of the crowning infamy of four hundred years of misrule, by Thomas Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon
- Catalogue of the library of Edward Gibbon ... left by him at Lausanne. Which will be sold by auctionEdward Gibbon
- An historical view of Christianity; containing select passages from Scripture; with a commentary by the late Edward Gibbon, esq., and notes Edward Gibbon
- LettersEdward Gibbon
- The memoirs of the life of Edward Gibbon with various observations and excursionsEdward Gibbon
- Autobiography; illus. from his letters, with occasional notes and narratives by John, Lord SheffieldEdward Gibbon
- Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, esq., tr. from the original French, by John Black. With an essay by William D. HowellsEdward Gibbon
- The crusadesEdward Gibbon
- The student's Gibbon. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, incorporating the researches of rEdward Gibbon
- Graham's Gibbon; a condensation of Edward Gibbon's The decline and fall of the Roman empire (A.D. 180-1461), by Malcolm K. GrahamEdward Gibbon
- Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'empire Romain, traduite de l'Anglais d'Edouard GibbonEdward Gibbon
- Guizot's Gibbon : history of the decline and fall of the Roman EmpireEdward Gibbon