BRITISH AUTHORS
'He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-26_J_20.mp3">following passage</a><br /><br /><i>"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."</i>'
Edward Gibbon