Buy Used/3rdParty More product information Find other editions (Softback, Hardback, Audio, etc)	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - V1 Our Price: $2.99 Digital - Amazon Press Availability: Available for download now Author: Edward Gibbon, David Womersley More books by Edward Gibbon Features: Download: Microsoft Reader Don't have the Microsoft Reader? Click here to download it for free.
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Customer Reviews Best work of the last millennium Everyone has his or her own idea as to which book is the best work of the past thousand years. Most lists are headed by "Lord of the Rings", and I don't have a lot of quarrel with that particular selection. My own personal selection, however, is Gibbon's masterful work, which I am now reading one volume at a time, with time-outs between them for other reading. My reason for this selection is that I am in total awe of the achievement of an author who could create such a masterful work almost 250 years ago, when the resources available to him were so scanty compared with today's plethora of information. He took what he had researched and seamlessly joined it into a composition that reads as easily today (despite some verbosity, common to the times in which it was written) as it did then. I am constantly learning more about this era and the people than I had ever known, and every page is a new revelation. This work is a long-term project, I realize, but I intend to stick it out and read every word of this masterful work!

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