2019年3月26日 星期二

H. G. Wells 的《文明的故事》A Short History of the World及其他緣分


Tuesday, March 26, 2019

二手書店竹軒的感情。鍾肇政先生的翻譯作品H. G. Wells 的《文明的故事》




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A Short History of the World
A Short History of the World (H.G. Wells).jpg
AuthorH. G. Wells
CountryUnited Kingdom
SubjectGeneral history
PublisherThe Bodley Head and Penguin Books
Publication date
1922
Pages344
ISBN0-14-144182-8
OCLC45755675
A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells first published by Cassell & Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922.[1] It was first published in Penguin Books in 1936. It was republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History.[2]
The book is 344 pages in total,[3] summarising the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth,[4] reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation.[5] The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922.[6][7] In 1934 Albert Einsteinrecommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation.[8]

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  1. ^ Wells, H.G. (1922). A Short History of the World (1 ed.). New York: Macmillan. Retrieved 1 July 2016 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  3. ^ Michael Sherborne introduction to H. G. Wells and A Short History of the World
  4. ^ University of Gothenburg review
  5. ^ History is One manifesto NY:Ginn
  6. ^ The Open Conspiracy 1928
  7. ^ Outline of History, a precursor of A Short History of the World, Ch. 41
  8. ^ Einstein, Albert (1994). "Education and World Peace, A Message to the Progressive Education Association, November 23, 1934". Ideas and Opinions: With An Introduction by Alan Lightman, Based on Mein Weltbild, edited by Carl Seelig, and Other Sources, New Translations and Revisions by Sonja Bargmann. New York: The Modern Library. p. 63.

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二手書店竹軒的感情。
去年新潮文庫的張清吉先生過世，我在新Blog上寫文紀念，一個月百來篇。由於書大部分放在永和，所以我多利用二手書店的。當時催老闆多跟我找書。今天，他送我一本張先生的簽名書。更難得的是，這是本鍾肇政先生的翻譯作品----H. G. Wells 的《文明的故事》。
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