The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThis definitive three volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernised text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers. Edward Gibbon's six volume The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776 88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilisations over thirteen centuriesits rulers, wars, and society, and