The Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire

Before Harry was fourteen, he had read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and many other books which he declared, ". . . had a great influence on me . . . when I was a boy, I was something of a book worm, in part because my eyesight kept me out of a good many games and sports."



Photo is of the book's author,
Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794