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》也是廣受好評的。這本書最初是用德語于1935年寫就,當(dāng)時他只有26歲。后來,他于92歲時,2001年去世,當(dāng)時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...