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.
吉本穷其一生之力,只作了这一本书,足可见这本书的分量。无论是在布鲁姆的《西方正典》中,还是在杜兰特推荐的《世界上最伟大的思想》,还是在艾德勒《如何阅读一本书》中,此书都是必推书。这本书的伟大在前言部分已有介绍,我不重复。个人欣赏这本书的原因是浓厚的贵族气息...
評分 評分一) 这是一部洋洋六大卷的巨著,共七十一章,一百五十余万词,八千多个注,几乎所有的古典作品都有所涉及,参考的晚期罗马帝国和中世纪的文献资料不知凡几,引证的近代学者达到四百多人。全书起点是奥古斯都定下帝国规模,结尾是波吉奥在罗马废墟上感慨命运无常,中间跨度...
評分说实话,西方人写的历史著作我一般不爱看,一来西方人写得太细了,一来懂得外语的翻译者,却不是一个合格的中文书写者。而吉本这部书,如果一定要我评价,我认为只有司马迁的《史记》可相提并论。罗马帝国在西方历史上,如汉唐之于我国。而罗马之分裂和中国的持久统一,构...
評分我在Amazon上下过kindle免费版的原著,但由于我目前有关罗马的知识储备不足,还没有能力很流畅地阅读,与其花耗大量精力硬啃,不如先看一册中文译本,作一下铺垫。 我选的中文译本是由席代岳老先生所译。因为是本着学习大量英文名词的目的来看待这套译本,所以,对我而言,书中...
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Very good! Great english literature!
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评分雖然看瞭這麼久,但真是傑作啊
评分有史評的感覺
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