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Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon's monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788. It traces Rome's long descent from the height of the empire under the Antonines through the collapse of the West and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Celebrated for its elegant Enlightenment prose and its skeptical treatment of Christianity's historical role, it remains the most influential single work of history written in English.

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