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.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.
雖然貢布里希(Ernst Gombrich)寫的《藝術(shù)的故事》更有名,但是他的《A Little History ofthe World》也是廣受好評(píng)的。這本書最初是用德語于1935年寫就,當(dāng)時(shí)他只有26歲。后來,他于92歲時(shí),2001年去世,當(dāng)時(shí)他正在用英文重寫它,并且堅(jiān)持只能是他來重新寫/翻譯。最終由他的助手完成了全部的翻譯工作。他用編年體的方式寫了世界各地的歷史,從人類住巖洞時(shí)期開始,直到第一次世界大戰(zhàn)。其中有不少內(nèi)容講述了各種宗教教義,主義和文化思潮,以及它們是如何融...
《A Little History of the World》是恩斯特·貢德爾(Ernst Gombrich)創(chuàng)作的一部通俗易懂的歷史讀物,適合各個(gè)年齡層的讀者。書中以簡(jiǎn)潔明了的語言,回顧了從史前時(shí)代到20世紀(jì)的世界歷史,涵蓋了重要事件、文化和人物。作者通過生動(dòng)的敘述風(fēng)格,將復(fù)雜的歷史知識(shí)轉(zhuǎn)化為易于理解的故事,吸引了無數(shù)年輕讀者的興趣。亮點(diǎn)在于其簡(jiǎn)練而富有洞察力的視角,使歷史變得生動(dòng)、有趣,并激發(fā)了讀者對(duì)人類歷史的探索欲望。