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.
發表於2024-06-26
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
我在Amazon上下過kindle免費版的原著,但由於我目前有關羅馬的知識儲備不足,還沒有能力很流暢地閱讀,與其花耗大量精力硬啃,不如先看一冊中文譯本,作一下鋪墊。 我選的中文譯本是由席代嶽老先生所譯。因為是本著學習大量英文名詞的目的來看待這套譯本,所以,對我而言,書中...
評分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...
評分我在圖書館看瞭一冊,的確有些譯名有問題,有些地方相同名字有不同譯法,不過這可能是由於編輯分工不同的緣故,並不影響閱讀,至少比商務譯叢裏麵亂七八糟的譯名和繁體字要好得多。據我所知這可是大陸第一本全譯本,席代嶽並非是專業人士,但譯作一點也不比專業的差,這...
評分為何做此事? 無論從文學性, 還是從學術性的角度來看, 愛德華•吉本的《羅馬帝國衰亡史》(The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)都可稱為是西方著作中的經典, 也是目前幾乎所有歐洲曆史的愛好者和學者都無法繞過的史學巨著。 該書完成於18世紀末。那些...
評分關於羅馬的曆史,或者羅馬帝國的曆史的著作可謂汗牛充棟,而生於18世紀的英國史學泰鬥愛德華·吉本所著的《羅馬帝國衰亡史》在其中則當之無愧地占據瞭重要而顯著的位置。通史性質的史書,有利於從曆史的漫長這樣一個角度來體味曆史發展的脈絡,在更大的一個尺度上找齣某種規律...
圖書標籤: 曆史 古羅馬 Gibbon history Roman 英語 英文原版 歷史
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
評分有史評的感覺
評分http://www.verycd.com/topics/130400/
評分原著節選,實在讀不起那原著全篇的隻能看這個瞭
評分《羅馬帝國衰亡史》
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載