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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.
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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.
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为何做此事？ 无论从文学性, 还是从学术性的角度来看, 爱德华•吉本的《罗马帝国衰亡史》(The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)都可称为是西方著作中的经典, 也是目前几乎所有欧洲历史的爱好者和学者都无法绕过的史学巨著。 该书完成于18世纪末。那些...
评分这本书的翻译坏到了不可思议的地步。不要说信达雅这些东西，基本的语法都不同，英文里的从句原封不动地变成中文，结果结构混乱不堪，一个长句子可以没有一个主语，也可以有七八个主语。从句和主句结构不分。读起来让人憋气。 我就不理解：哪怕粗略一翻，就会发现无数读不通的病...
评分我在图书馆看了一册，的确有些译名有问题，有些地方相同名字有不同译法，不过这可能是由于编辑分工不同的缘故，并不影响阅读，至少比商务译丛里面乱七八糟的译名和繁体字要好得多。据我所知这可是大陆第一本全译本，席代岳并非是专业人士，但译作一点也不比专业的差，这...
评分这是一本久负盛名的书，但我们过去读的是大陆版的节选本，尽管编者再三说明节选的如何高明，但就同一场精彩有戏，尽管有高潮，但如果仅是高潮，决非能给初始阅读者真正的收获。基于此，这本全本的重要性就不言而喻了。 更精彩的是译者的水平，信、达、雅的典型一书。 ...
评分核心提示：《上海书评》刊登了对席代岳先生的访谈，谈他翻译的《罗马帝国衰亡史》。文末席先生提及大陆读者对他译著的意见，其宽容的气度令人感佩。此前，我在网络上随口发表了对此译本的诸多“牢骚话”，我原以为席先生正当壮年，现在才知道却是一位年逾七旬的长者，从人际交...
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Very good! Great english literature!
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评分买的人人的6 volumes..读起来太舒服.百读不厌..这个版本的买过 但是很多章节被删掉了
评分句法很像汉语。。每一段演说都很迷人
评分句法很像汉语。。每一段演说都很迷人
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