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　　世界文學名著錶現瞭作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫，讓讀者如同置身當時的曆史文化之中。為此，我們將這套精心編輯的“名著典藏”奉獻給廣大讀者。
　　我們找來瞭專門研究西方曆史、西方文化的專傢學者，請教瞭專業的翻譯人員，精心挑選瞭這些可以代錶西方文學的著作，並聽取瞭一些國外專門研究文學的朋友的建議，不刪節、不做任何人為改動，嚴格按照原著的風格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。
　　隨著閱讀的展開，你會發現自己的英語水平無形中有瞭大幅提高，並且對西方曆史文化的瞭解也日益深入廣闊。
　　送您一套經典，讓您受益永遠！

內容簡介

　　房龍對於世界地理的解讀，不僅限於討論地球的自然特徵，他沒有羅列枯燥的數字，沒有堆砌深奧的名詞，而是把人作為重點，來探究人的生存命運，試圖尋找到人類幸福的共通之路。房龍用文學手法賦予知識以靈性，把自然地理的規律和人文地韆姿百態展現在讀者麵前。

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目錄

1.And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in
2.A Definition of the Word Geography
3.Our Planet
4.Maps
5.The Seasons and How They Happen
6.Concerning the Little Spots of Dry Land on This Planet
7.Of the Discovery of Europe
8.Greece
9.Italy
10.Spain
11.France
12.Belgium
13.Luxemburg
14.Switzerland
15.Germany
16.Austria
17.Denmark
18.Iceland
19.The Scandinavian Peninsula
20.The Netherlands
21.Great Britain
22.Russia
23.Poland
24.Czechoslovakia
25.Yugoslavia
26.Bulgaria
27.Roumania
28.Hungary
29.Finland
30.The Discovery of Asia
31.What Asia Has Meant to the Rest of the World
32.The Central Asiatic Highlands
33.The Great Western Plateau of Asia
34.Arabia
35.India
36.Burma, Siam, Anam and Malacca
37.The Republic of China
38.Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria
39.The Japanese Empire
40.The Philippines
41.The Dutch East Indies
42.Australia
43.New Zealand
44.The Islands of the Pacific
45.Africa
46.America
47.A New World

精彩書摘

　　1. And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in
　　IT sounds incredible， but nevertheless it is true. If everybody in this world of ours were six feet tall and a foot and a half wide and a foot thick （and that is making people a little bigger than they usually are）, then the whole of the human race （and according to the latest available statistics, there are now nearly 2,000,000,000 descendants of the original Homo sapiens and his wife） could be packed into a box measuring half a mile in each direction. That, as I just said, sounds incredible, but if you dont believe me figure it Out for yourself and you will find it to be correct.
　　If we transported that box to the Grand Canyon of Arizona and balanced it neatly on the low stone wall that keeps people from breaking their necks when stunned by the incredible beauty of that silent witness of the forces of Eternity and then called little Noodle, the dachshund and told him （the tiny beast is very intelligent and loves to oblige） to give tile unwieldy contraption a slight push with his soft brown nose, there would be a moment of crunching and ripping as the wooden planks loosened stones and shrubs and trees on their downward path and then a low and even softer bumpity-bumpity-bump and a sudden splash when the outer edges struck the banks of the Colorado River.
　　Then silence and oblivion.
　　The human sardines in their mortuary chest would soon be forgotten.
　　The Canyon would go on battling wind and air and sun and rain as it has done since it was created.
　　……

前言/序言

　　世界文學名著錶現瞭作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫，讓讀者如同置身當時的曆史文化之中。為此，我們將這套精心編輯的“名著典藏”奉獻給廣大讀者。
　　我們找來瞭專門研究西方曆史、西方文化的專傢學者，請教瞭專業的翻譯人員，精心挑選瞭這些可以代錶西方文學的著作，並聽取瞭一些國外專門。研究文學的朋友的建議，不刪節、不做任何人為改動，嚴格按照原著的風格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。
　　隨著閱讀的展開，你會發現自己的英語水平無形中有瞭大幅提高，並且對西方曆史文化的瞭解也日益深入廣闊。
　　送您一套經典，讓您受益永遠！

物流很快，送朋友的，很滿意。

還沒看，差下來說還不錯，主要是想各國各種體裁都看一下。

感謝京東圖書節哈… 淘書好地方

超乎想象地小，不過印刷和裝訂都不錯。

紙張不是很好。看看可以，不值得收藏

作為意大利文藝復興時期的故事會，曆史價值遠大於文學價值，其中你可以看到封建製度的瓦解，對基督教的嘲諷和懷疑，對人幸福的追求等等可以看到@改革、地理大發現和啓濛時代的端倪。

做活動買的，慢慢讀，很不錯。

此用戶未填寫評價內容

於是在京東搜尋好久確定買這本，一來房龍的書英文結構不是太晦澀難懂，漢語翻譯作用不是特彆大，所以沒有譯文也無妨。二來作者手繪地圖很有原本的感覺，讀著也有意思。