Writing in his fifty-second year, the historian of Rome reviews a life spent mostly among books: a sickly childhood, an unhappy spell at Oxford, conversion to Catholicism and banishment to Lausanne, a thwarted love, militia service, and the long labour of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The text was assembled after his death from his drafts.
One of the great English autobiographies, dry, ironic and quietly moving. Download the free EPUB.