Edward Gibbon was born in 1737 in Putney, England, and was the only child of his parents to survive infancy. Although his education was frequently interrupted by ill health, his knowledge was far-reaching. His brief career as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, ended when he joined the Catholic Church. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he re-joined the Protestant Church. In 1761 he published his Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature; the English version appeared in 1764. Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
In 1774, after the death of his father, Gibbon settled in London and was elected to Parliament where he sat for the next eight years, although he never once spoke in the Commons. He also took his place among the literary circles of London. The first volume of his famous History was published in 1776; it was highly praised for its learning and style but incurred some censure for its treatment of the early Christians. The second and third volumes appeared in 1781 and the final three, which were written in Lausanne, in 1788. He died while on a visit to his friend, Lord Sheffield, who posthumously edited Gibbon's autobiographical papers and published them in 1796.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthralling account by 'the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment'. This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.
這本書的翻譯壞到瞭不可思議的地步。不要說信達雅這些東西,基本的語法都不同,英文裏的從句原封不動地變成中文,結果結構混亂不堪,一個長句子可以沒有一個主語,也可以有七八個主語。從句和主句結構不分。讀起來讓人憋氣。 我就不理解:哪怕粗略一翻,就會發現無數讀不通的病...
評分這是一本久負盛名的書,但我們過去讀的是大陸版的節選本,盡管編者再三說明節選的如何高明,但就同一場精彩有戲,盡管有高潮,但如果僅是高潮,決非能給初始閱讀者真正的收獲。基於此,這本全本的重要性就不言而喻瞭。 更精彩的是譯者的水平,信、達、雅的典型一書。 ...
評分 評分【本文作於多年前,係針對商務節編本而言,當時席譯本未齣】 中譯本是根據英文節本翻譯的,以篇幅而論,隻閤原著一小部分。節編者明言,此書是為讀過原著的人準備的。我粗略地比較瞭中、英兩種文本,感覺在沒有譯齣的文字中,不少是很有價值的。首先是注釋,作者在...
詞匯。。。
评分Very good! Great english literature!
评分吉本對羅馬時代兼容並蓄的精神非常欣賞,因此對基督教的血腥發傢史充滿瞭嘲諷。
评分買的人人的6 volumes..讀起來太舒服.百讀不厭..這個版本的買過 但是很多章節被刪掉瞭
评分詞匯。。。
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