Leviathan213 · 26-Апр-10 07:07(14 лет 6 месяцев назад, ред. 26-Апр-10 07:08)
The Story of Civilization - All 11 Volumes Год выпуска: 1981 Автор: Will and Ariel Durant Исполнитель: Alexander Alain Жанр: аудиокнига Язык: Английский Тип: аудиокнига Аудио кодек: MP3 Битрейт аудио: 48 kb/s 44100 Hz Описание: This is a monumental work by a revered historian who writes well, reveals great insight, and is eminently quotable. Where are our Will Durant's today? Few serious scholars are willing to accept the criticism that is inevitable with such a massive undertaking. And far too many are stifled from revealing history and its lessons adequately because of the current all-consuming academic fad of political correctness.
Of course, He and his wife can't cover everything from the dawn of civilization to Napoleon. What he does do is paint the broad picture using specific examples from time to time. Naturally some subjectivity is involved, and he acknowledged this readily.
Volume I should get you hooked as he tells us the many necessities for transition from savagery to civilization, why he regards the first culture as agriculture, etc. This was not his only profound and esteemed writing, but it is an excellent example, and many would consider this his masterpiece. It certainly is huge
This set was revised or rewritten 3 times by Will Durant. This, his 3rd version, has 11 volumes by adding The Age of Napoleon. Доп. информация: from wikipedia
The Durants strove throughout The Story of Civilization to create what they called "integral history". They opposed this to the "specialization" of history, an anticipatory rejection of what some have called the "cult of the expert." Their goal was to write a "biography" of a civilization, in this case, the West, including not just the usual wars, politics and biography of greatness and villainy, but also the culture, art, philosophy, religion, and the rise of mass communication. Much of The Story considers the living conditions of everyday people throughout the twenty-five hundred years their "story" of the West covers. They also bring an unabashedly moral framework to their accounts, constantly stressing the repetition of the "dominance of strong over the weak, the clever over the simple." The Story of Civilization is the most successful historiographical series in history. It has been said that the series "put Simon and Schuster on the map" as a publishing house.
The Story of Civilization is also noteworthy because of the excellence of its writing style, and contains numerous apothegms worthy of the Roman and Renaissance authors Durant admired. Discussing certain inconsistencies in the character of Botticelli in The Renaissance (page 137), he writes: "Doubtless like all of us he was many men, turned on one or another of his selves as occasion required, and kept his real self a frightened secret from the world."
For Rousseau and Revolution, (1967), the 10th volume of The Story of Civilization, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature; later followed one of the two highest awards granted by the United States government to civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Ford in 1977.
Полный комплект работ известного историка - рекомендуется всем специалистам в области этих знаний, а также всем интересующимся!
Volume 1 - Our Oriental Heritage
Volume 2 - The Life of Greece
Volume 3 - Caesar and Christ
Volume 4 - Age of Faith
Volume 5 - The Renaissance
Volume 6 - The Reformation
Volume 7 - The Age of Reason Begins
Volume 8 - The Age of Louis XIV
Volume 9 - The Age of Voltaire
Volume 10 - Rousseau and Revolution
Volume 11 - The Age of Napoleon
1.1 Название: (обязательно для заполнения) - название аудоикниги. Обязательно на русском языке (для подраздела "Аудиокниги на иностранных языках" плюс к русскому название на языке аудиокниги (если аудиокнига на англ. на английском, если на немецком - на немецком и т.д.), т.е. название на русском / название на иностранном). Пример названий: "Три возраста Окини-сан", "Воля и власть", "Кэрролл Л. Алиса в стране чудес / Alice in Wonderland"
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1.10 Описание: (обязательно для заполнения). Описание должно быть полным и понятным другим пользователям (на русском языке + на языке оригинала для подраздела "Аудиокниги на иностранных языках" ).
А раздача-то хороша. Напрасно выглядит заброшенной. Язык немудрёный, да и тексты Google находит легко.
Читает Alexander Adams. Мне он ещё здесь понравился https://rutr.life/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2603568
Четвёртый файл в первой части на проигрывается, заменить бы: Will and Ariel Durant - The Story of Civilization - All 11 Volumes/Durant.Will-01-Our.Oriental.Heritage/04 - Our Oriental Heritage - Durant, Will.mp3 Точнее, на 9% прерывается воспроизведение.
67922926Четвёртый файл в первой части на проигрывается, заменить бы: Will and Ariel Durant - The Story of Civilization - All 11 Volumes/Durant.Will-01-Our.Oriental.Heritage/04 - Our Oriental Heritage - Durant, Will.mp3 Точнее, на 9% прерывается воспроизведение.
Подтверждаю. С бухты пришлось первый том скачивать. До остальных томов еще как до луны)
На audiobookbay можно найти заново начитанную версию данных книг, в намного лучшем качестве (все-таки аудиокассетное качество из
этой раздачи сглаживает и делает неразборчивыми многие слова).
