《Foundation: The History of England》是由英国作家Peter Ackroyd撰写的一部英国历史著作。这本书以一种引人入胜的方式,讲述了从史前时期到20世纪初的英国历史。Ackroyd不仅深入探讨了英国的政治、经济和社会变革,还揭示了影响这些变革的文化、宗教和哲学因素。
该书的特点之一是作者将历史与文学、艺术、科学等其他领域相结合,展示了英国历史的丰富多样性。Ackroyd还关注了许多历史人物和事件,包括亚瑟王、诺曼征服、黑死病、工业革命、世界大战等,以及这些事件对英国历史进程的影响。
此外,《Foundation: The History of England》还关注了英国与其他国家的关系,特别是与欧洲大陆的关系。Ackroyd指出,英国历史在很大程度上是与其他国家互动的结果,这种互动塑造了英国的政治、经济和文化。
对于英文原版读者来说,这本书不仅是一部深入了解英国历史的好书,还是一部展示英语语言和文学魅力的作品。Ackroyd的文笔优美,叙事流畅,使读者在欣赏历史故事的同时,也能感受到英语的魅力。
总之,《Foundation: The History of England》是一部全面、深入、引人入胜的英国历史著作,对于想要了解英国历史的读者来说,这是一本不可多得的佳作。
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors(#1)
基本信息
eries: The History of England (#1)
Format Paperback | 496 pages
Dimensions 140 x 210 x 34mm | 463g
Publication date 10 Sep 2013
Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
Language English
Edition Statement Reprint
Illustrations note Plus three 6-page color photograph inserts
ISBN10 1250037557
ISBN13 9781250037558
页面参数仅供参考,具体以实物为准
书籍简介
彼得·阿克罗伊德(Peter Ackroyd),一位由于对英国历史深感兴趣且甚为了解而使其作品根基深厚的作家,在本书中讲述了英国自己的史诗故事。
在《英国历史:奠基》(Foundation)一书中,这位伦敦编年史作家与伦敦泰晤士河一起带着我们,经历了英格兰的史前原始森林到1509年都铎王朝的第一位君主亨利七世(Henry VII)。从巨石阵的修建到中世纪英格兰的两大荣耀——英美法(common law)与大教堂——的兴起,他作为我们的向导,让我们窥探到这个国家最遥远的过去——在墓穴、古罗马堡垒、撒克逊古墓和中世纪领主宅邸中发现的新石器时代的马镫——并以华丽的文笔描述了那些缔造了英格兰英语的接二连三的入侵者,不管他们是罗马人、维京人、撒克逊人还是法国诺曼人。
他技巧非凡地再现了时间与空间,准确无误地看到了有意义的细节,讲述了关于国王之间的战争、平民之间的冲突、与外国入侵者的故事。但他也让我们生动地感受到了早期的英国人如何生活:他们建造的房屋、他们穿的衣服、他们吃的食物、甚至他们讲的笑话。这一切都通过一位英国最好的作家以高超的叙述技巧栩栩如生地塑造了出来。
A massive bestseller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country
"An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." --Daily Express (UK)
In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. He takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He describes the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French.
With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought to life through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
目录
1. Hymns of stone
2. The Roman way
3. Climate change
4. Spear points
5. The blood eagle
6. The measure of the king
7. The coming of the conquerors
8. The house
9. Devils and wicked men
10. The road
11. The law is lost
12. The names
13. The turbulent priest
14. The lost village
15. The great charter
16. Crime and punishment
17. A simple king
18. The seasonal year
19. The emperor of Britain
20. The hammer
21. The favourites of a king
22. Birth and death
23. The sense of a nation
24. The night schools
25. The commotion
26. Into the woods
27. The suffering king
28. Old habits
29. The warrior
30. How others saw us
31. A simple man
32. Meet the family
33. The divided realm
34. The world at play
35. The lion and the lamb
36. The staple of life
37. The king of spring
38. Come to town
39. The zealot king
40. The king of suspicions
41. A conclusion
Further reading
Index
作者简介
彼得·阿克洛依德(Peter Ackroyd )是获奖小说家、播音员、传记作家、诗人和历史学家,1949年生于伦敦,1972年毕业于剑桥大学,1972年在耶鲁大学任研究员。他的非小说畅销书《泰晤士:圣河》(Thames: Sacred River )和《伦敦传》(London: The Biography)颇受好评。他的文学成就赢得了英帝国二级勋位(CBE )。
他目前定居伦敦。
其他重要作品有:
《伦敦大火》(The Great Fire of London),1982
《诗人查特顿传》(Chatterton),1987
《查尔斯·狄更斯之谜》(The Mystery of Charles Dickens),2000
PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet, and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
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