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Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

Category: English Literature

Born: May 4, 1737
Putney (London), England

Died: January 16, 1794
London, England

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6/27/1787		The End of Gibbon's Decline and Fall On this day in 1787 Edward Gibbon wrote the concluding lines of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The book had been almost fifteen years in the making and Gibbon took a moment to "commemorate the hour of my final deliverance" by a reflective stroll in his Lausanne garden -- as Thomas Hardy, Byron, and many other literary travelers would do there after him.

6/27/1878		Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Lausanne The moment at which Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- just before midnight, June 27, 1787, in the small summer-house in his garden in Lausanne, Switzerland -- is described in detail in his memoirs The book had been almost 15 years in the making -- 6 volumes, 1.5 million words, 8000 footnotes -- and the author did not want to let "the hour of my final deliverance" go unmarked. . . .

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Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon, Betty Radice (Editor) memoirs
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1-3 history
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 4-6 history
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, David Womersley (Editor) history

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Find electronic texts including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (volumes 1-6), Memoirs of My Life and Writings, and A View of the Art of Colonization.

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