History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

David Womersley (External Editor, Introducer) David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

• Abridged with a New Introduction and Notes by David WomersleyAbbreviationsIntroductionSelected Further ReadingA Note on the TextChronologyGibbon's PrefacesChapter IChapter IIChapter III[Chapters IV-VI]Chapter VII[Chapters VIII-XIV]Chapter XV[Chapters XVI-XXI]Chapter XXIIChapter XXIIIChapter XXIV[Chapters XXV-XXVII]Chapter XXVIII[Chapters XXIX-XXXIII]Chapter XXXIVChapter XXXV[Chapters XXXVI-XXXVIII]General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West[Chapter XXXIX]Chapter XLChapter XLI[Chapters XLII-XLIX]Chapter L[Chapters LI-LIII]Chapter LIV[Chapters LV-LXVII]Chapter LXVIII[Chapters LXIX-LXX]Chapter LXXIBiographica