Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingenu abroad in the razzmatazz of Twenties high society.

《衰落》出版后立即轰动整个伦敦文坛。小说家阿诺德·班内特写道:“一个真正的幽默天才出现了,他就是伊夫林·沃,他的《衰落》是一部辉煌的讽刺小说,我认为是第一流的。”小说家兼评论家马尔科姆·布雷德伯利称沃的这部小说是“一部描写天真青年冒险经历的流浪汉滑稽小说”。美国评论家埃德蒙·威尔逊认为,“伊夫林·沃的小说很可能流传下来,而他可能成为继肖伯纳之后最优秀的喜剧天才”。文论家和校园小说家戴维·洛奇认为沃的小说标题表达了对现行社会的一种审判态度,而特里·伊格尔顿则指出《衰落》为伊夫林·沃后来的小说主题奠定了基调。这本小说出版后如此流行,以至于温斯顿·丘吉尔把它作为圣诞礼物赠送朋友。的确,小说以《衰落》为标题,本身就传达出沃对社会的一种评价。他看到社会的动乱和道德沦丧,特别是上流社会的堕落,“举目四顾,到处是变动和颓败”,联系早年研读过的爱德华·吉本的《罗马帝...(展开全部)

《衰落》出版后立即轰动整个伦敦文坛。小说家阿诺德·班内特写道:“一个真正的幽默天才出现了,他就是伊夫林·沃,他的《衰落》是一部辉煌的讽刺小说,我认为是第一流的。”小说家兼评论家马尔科姆·布雷德伯利称沃的这部小说是“一部描写天真青年冒险经历的流浪汉滑稽小说”。美国评论家埃德蒙·威尔逊认为,“伊夫林·沃的小说很可能流传下来,而他可能成为继肖伯纳之后最优秀的喜剧天才”。文论家和校园小说家戴维·洛奇认为沃的小说标题表达了对现行社会的一种审判态度,而特里·伊格尔顿则指出《衰落》为伊夫林·沃后来的小说主题奠定了基调。这本小说出版后如此流行,以至于温斯顿·丘吉尔把它作为圣诞礼物赠送朋友。的确,小说以《衰落》为标题,本身就传达出沃对社会的一种评价。他看到社会的动乱和道德沦丧,特别是上流社会的堕落,“举目四顾,到处是变动和颓败”,联系早年研读过的爱德华·吉本的《罗马帝...(展开全部)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(展开全部)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(展开全部)

约翰·朱利叶斯·诺里奇(John Julius Norwich)，出生于1929年，逝世于2018年，英国著名历史学家、游记作家。诺里奇爵士曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席，英国皇家文学学会、英国皇家地理学会和英国皇家古文物学会的会员，在1993年获得维多利亚十字勋章（CVO）。 他的作品包括《南方的诺曼人》（TheNormansintheSouth）和《阳光之下的王国》（The Kingdom in the Sun），集合在《西西里的诺曼王朝》（The Normans in Sicily）之中出版；《阿索斯圣山》（Mount Athos，与里尔斯比•西特韦尔合著）和《撒哈拉》（Sahara）等游记；以及《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。

Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. Ackerman points to a series of developments that have previously been treated independently of one another -...(展开全部)