Gibbon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): English Men of Letters Series

This 1878 volume in the English Men of Letters series explores the life of Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  According to a contemporary review by Mark Pattison in the Academy, "Future numbers of the series may imitate, they cannot surpass, the present specimen." A splendid perspective on the life of an intriguing man.