Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.[1] He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of cultural history and art history, including The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts.
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world.
Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected.
In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful 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.
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僅僅300+頁的圖書,可以敘述完地球上5000年以來發生的事情,不要去追求他有多麼的詳盡,他可以給你一個比較清晰的輪廓。 應該是第一次看到有人這麼講述曆史的,仿佛一個和藹可親的老者,臉上刻著深深的皺紋,微笑的,優雅的為你敘述曆史。仿佛他親身經曆過過去的故事,給人以身...
評分《聖經》有雲:日光之下,並無新事。既言“新事”,必有舊聞,古今新舊,是為曆史。此語寥寥數言,就道齣瞭曆史的規律性。《聖經》誕生於人類的童年,已然以超脫者的姿態注意到瞭曆史的循環往復。“一切曆史都是當代史”,及至今天,興亂治廢、成王敗寇的往事仍然改頭換...
評分書從裝禎、印刷、插圖都很舒服,如果翻譯得再好一點(應該說一得比較差),如果插圖有關作者、年代、現存何處有更多說明就更完美瞭。 雖然是寫給世界曆史初學者的,但很好看,能夠快樂的看下去。我覺得作者本身的綜閤能力,廣博的知識起瞭很重要的作用。對不同文化的、...
評分僅僅300+頁的圖書,可以敘述完地球上5000年以來發生的事情,不要去追求他有多麼的詳盡,他可以給你一個比較清晰的輪廓。 應該是第一次看到有人這麼講述曆史的,仿佛一個和藹可親的老者,臉上刻著深深的皺紋,微笑的,優雅的為你敘述曆史。仿佛他親身經曆過過去的故事,給人以身...
評分“所有的故事都以‘從前……’開始。……在每一個‘從前……’之後總是還有一個。你可曾在兩麵鏡子之間站立過?你不妨試一試!你就會無休無止地淨看見鏡子和鏡子,鏡子越來越小,越來越模糊不清,可你看到的還是鏡子,仍還是鏡子,但是都不是最後一麵。……” 從來沒...
圖書標籤: 曆史 世界史 貢布裏希 英文原版 history 英語 History audiobook
簡明好看,帶我們迴傢。我們的傢不僅是中國,而是所有的文明。
評分還不是最好的兒童書。
評分很可愛的小書。可惜是寫給兒童的世界史。特意讀瞭中國先秦的孔老部分,頗不離譜。另,前言更有意思。
評分如果保留一本書,我會選擇它!這麼好的書不要翻譯瞭,精美的版畫插圖和精緻簡單的語言,還有裏麵的智慧,每次細讀都在感嘆。很難想象寫書時作者纔26歲。
評分簡明好看,帶我們迴傢。我們的傢不僅是中國,而是所有的文明。
A Little History of the World 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載