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《最经典英语文库:人类的故事(英文版)》出版后,受到很多读者的热烈欢迎。
房龙在《最经典英语文库:人类的故事(英文版)》中,承继他一贯的写作语言特色:不疾不徐,娓娓道来。文字功夫十分了得的房龙,是最会讲故事的作家之一。因此,读者只要一翻开他的书,就会不自觉地读下去,忘记时间,忘记一切。而且,书中为读者准备了大量的惊奇与惊喜的故事情节和他对历史事件的独具特色的点评。
有个书评家如此评价房龙:the writing is natural,and conversational.This sort ofwriting looks easy;it isn't.(房龙的)写作风格十分自然,又很注重口语化。
作者简介
房龙(VanLoon.H.W.,1882—1944),杰出的美国通俗历史作家,出生于荷兰。他1931年开始写书,直到1921年写出《人类的故事》,一举成名,饮誉世界。房龙一生著述颇丰,写了30多部涉及历史、文化、文明以及科学等方面的书籍,主要包括《房龙地理》《文明的开端》《太平洋的故事》《人类的艺术》《圣经的故事》《宽容》《美国的故事》《与伟人谈心》以及此书《人类的故事》等。房龙的著作文笔优美、知识广博、轻松风趣,真知灼见发人深省,贯穿着理性、宽容和进步的人文主义思想,具有经久不衰的魅力,在世界各地广受读者喜爱。房龙是出色的通俗作家,伟大的文化普及者,他的目标是向人类的无知和偏执挑战。他采取的方式是普及知识与真理,使他们成为尽人皆知的常识。
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目录
FOREWORD
1.THE SETTING OF THE STAGE
2.OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
3.PREHISTORIC MAN
4.HIEROGLYPHICS
5.THE NILE VALLEY
6.THE STORY OF EGYPT
7.MESOPOTAMIA
8.THE SUMERIANS
9.MOSES
10.THE PHOENICIANS
11.THE INDO-EUROPEANS
12.THE AEGEAN SEA
13.THE GREEKS
14.THE GREEK CITIES
15.GREEK SELF-GOVERNMENT
16.GREEK LIFE
17.THE GREEK THEATRE
18.THE PERSIAN WARS
19.ATHENS VS.SPARTA
20.ALEXANDER THE GREAT
21.A SUMMARY
22.ROME AND CARTHAGE
23.THE RISE OF ROME
24.THE ROMAN EMPIRE
25.JOSHUA OF NAZARETH
26.THE FALL OF ROME
27.RISE OF THE CHURCH
28.MOHAMMED
29.CHARLEMAGNE
30.THE NORSEMEN
31.FEUDALISM
32.CHIVALRY
33.POPE VS.EMPEROR
34.THE CRUSADES
35.THE MEDIAEVAL CITY
36.MEDIAEVAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
37.THE MEDIAEVAL WORBD
38.MEDIAEVAL TRADE
39.THE RENAISSANCE
40.THE AGE OF EXPRESSION
41.THE GREAT DISCOVERIES
42.BUDDHAAND CONFUCIUS
43.THE REFORMATION
44.RELIGIOUS WARFARE
45.THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
46.THE BALANCE OF POWER
47.THE RISE OF RUSSIA
48.RUSSIA VS.SWEDEN
49.THE RISE OF PRUSSIA
50.THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
51.THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
52.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
53.NAPOLEON
54.THE HOLY ALLIANCE
55.THE GREAT REACTION
56.NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
57.THE AGE OF THE ENGINE
58.THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
59.EMANCIPATION
60.THE AGE OF SCIENCE
61.ART
62.COLONIAL EXPANSION AND WAR
63.A NEW WORLD
64.AS IT EVER SHALL BE
65.AN ANIMATED CHRONOLOGY 500,000 B.C.——A.D.1922
前言/序言
General Preface
Millions of Chinese are learning English to acquire knowledge and skills for communication in a world where English has become the primary language for international discourse. Yet not many learners have come to realize that the command of the English language also enables them to have an easy access to the world literary classics such as Shakespeare’s plays, Shelley’s poems, mark Twain’s novels and Nietzsche’s works which are an important part of liberal-arts education. The most important goals of universities are not vocational, that is, not merely the giving of knowledge and the training of skills.
In a broad sense, education aims at broadening young people’s mental horizon, cultivating virtues and shaping their character. Lincoln, Mao Zedong and many other great leaders and personages of distinction declared how they drew immense inspiration and strength from literary works. As a matter of fact, many of them had aspired to become writers in their young age. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) is said to take along with him two things, waking or sleeping: a book and a dagger, and the book is Iliad, a literary classic, by Homer. He would put these two much treasured things under his pillow when he went to bed.
Today, we face an unprecedented complex and changing world. To cope with this rapid changing world requires not only communication skills, but also adequate knowledge of cultures other than our own home culture. Among the most important developments in present-day global culture is the ever increasing cultural exchanges and understanding between different nations and peoples. And one of the best ways to know foreign cultures is to read their literary works, particularly their literary classics, the soul of a country’s culture. They also give you the best language and the feeling of sublimity.
Liaoning People’s Publishing House is to be congratulated for its foresight and courage in making a new series of world literary classics available to the reading public. It is hoped that people with an adequate command of the English language will read them, like them and keep them as their lifetime companions.
I am convinced that the series will make an important contribution to the literary education of the young people in china. At a time when the whole country is emphasizing “spiritual civilization”, it is certainly a very timely venture to put out the series of literary classics for literary and cultural education.
Zhang Zhongzai
Professor
Beijing Foreign Studies University
July, 2013 Beijing
总 序
经典名著的语言无疑是最凝练、最优美、最有审美价值的。雪莱的那句“如冬已来临,春天还会远吗?”让多少陷于绝望的人重新燃起希望之火,鼓起勇气,迎接严冬过后的春天。徐志摩一句“悄悄的我走了,正如我悄悄的来;我挥一挥衣袖,不带走一片云彩”又让多少人陶醉。尼采的那句“上帝死了”,又给多少人以振聋发聩的启迪作用。
读经典名著,尤其阅读原汁原味作品,可以怡情养性,增长知识,加添才干,丰富情感,开阔视野。所谓“经典”,其实就是作者所属的那个民族的文化积淀,是那个民族的灵魂缩影。
英国戏剧泰斗莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》和《麦克白》等、“意大利语言之父”的但丁的《神曲》之《地狱篇》《炼狱篇》及《天堂篇》、爱尔兰世界一流作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》及《一个艺术家的肖像》等、美国风趣而笔法超一流的著名小说家马克·吐温的《哈克历险记》以及《汤姆索亚历险记》等,德国著名哲学家尼采的《查拉图斯特拉如是说》及《快乐的科学》等等,都为塑造自己民族的文化积淀,做出了永恒的贡献,也同时向世界展示了他们所属的民族的优美剪影。
很多著名领袖如林肯、毛泽东等伟大人物,也都曾从经典名著中汲取力量,甚至获得治国理念。耶鲁大学教授查尔斯·希尔曾在题为《经典与治国理念》的文章,阐述了读书与治国之间的绝妙关系。他这样写道:“在几乎所有经典名著中,都可以找到让人叹为观止、深藏其中的治国艺术原则。”
经典名著,不仅仅有治国理念,更具提升读者审美情趣的功能。世界上不同时代、不同地域的优秀经典作品,都存在一个共同属性:歌颂赞美人间的真善美,揭露抨击世间的假恶丑。读欧美自但丁以来的经典名著,你会看到,西方无论是在漫长的黑暗时期,抑或进入现代进程时期,总有经典作品问世,对世间的负面,进行冷峻的批判。与此同时,也有更多的大家作品问世,热情讴歌人间的真诚与善良,使读者不由自主地沉浸于经典作品的审美情感之中。
英语经典名著,显然是除了汉语经典名著以外,人类整个进程中至关重要的文化遗产的一部分。从历史上看,英语是全世界经典阅读作品中,使用得最广泛的国际性语言。这一事实,没有产生根本性变化。本世纪相当长一段时间,这一事实也似乎不会发生任何变化。而要更深入地了解并切身感受英语经典名著的风采,阅读原汁原味的英语经典作品的过程,显然是必不可少的。
辽宁人民出版社及时并隆重推出“最经典英语文库”系列丛书,是具有远见与卓识的出版行为。我相信,这套既可供阅读,同时也具收藏价值的英语原版经典作品系列丛书,在帮助人们了解什么才是经典作品的同时,也一定会成为广大英语爱好者、大中学生以及学生家长们挚爱的“最经典英语文库”。
北京外国语大学英语学院
北外公共外交研究中心
欧美文学研究中心主任
全国英国文学学会名誉会长
张中载 教授
2013年7月于北京
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