In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world....
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.
作者简介
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恩斯特·贡布里希（Ernst H. Gombrich，1909—2001），生于奥地利维也纳，英国著名艺术史家、人文主义者，一位百科全书式的人物，被誉为“英国乃至世界上最著名的艺术史家”和“20世纪最具影响力的学者和思想家之一”。在二战期间，他曾为英国广播公司工作，专门负责监听德语广播；战后在伦敦大学瓦尔堡研究所工作，后来一直担任该校教授。
贡布里希善于以简明晓畅的语言讲述严肃的主题，他既有给学者阅读的专业著作，也写过很多给普通读者阅读的入门书，受到学者的尊敬与普通读者的喜爱。他的《艺术的故事》（The Story of Art）被认为是有关视觉艺术历史最通俗易懂的作品。这本《世界小史》则是贡布里希第一部作品，也是出色才华的最早展现，自1936年出版后，被翻译成多种语言，受到各年龄层读者的高度评价。
But you may be surprised to hear that the
Middle Ages were like a starry night. Let me explain.Have you ever
heard people talking about the Dark Ages? This is the name given
to the period which followed the collapse of the Roman empire
when very few people could read or write and hardly anyone knew
what was going on in the world. And because of this, they loved
telling each other all sorts of weird and wonderful tales and were
generally very superstitious. ‘Dark’, too, because houses in those
days were small and dark, and because the streets and highways
that the Romans had built had all fallen into decay and were overgrown
and their camps and cities had become grass-covered ruins.
The good Roman laws were forgotten and the beautiful Greek
statues had been smashed to pieces. All this is tr... (查看原文)
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0 有用 estherwisdom 2012-09-10 09:48:21
lovely book, concise