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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his "History of England" won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated in...(展开全部)

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his "History of England" won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated in...(展开全部)

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results ...' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic vi...(展开全部)

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results ...' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic vi...(展开全部)

彼得•阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949— ） 英国历史作家和小说家，著有“英格兰史六部曲”、《伦敦传》和《莎士比亚传》等六十多部作品。1984年当选英国皇家文学学会成员，曾获毛姆文学奖、惠特布雷德传记奖和英国皇家文学学会的威廉•海涅曼奖，2003年因其在写作方面的卓越贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。 【译者简介】 赵国新 北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事，中国国家图书馆“文津讲坛”特聘教授。主要从事西方文论和19世纪英国小说研究，主持过多项国家级和省部级课题。已出版《20世纪西方文论选读》《西方古典文论选读》《自由及其背叛》《现代西方思想史：1789年至今》等专著或译著二十余部。

彼得•阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949— ） 英国历史作家和小说家，著有“英格兰史六部曲”、《伦敦传》和《莎士比亚传》等六十多部作品。1984年当选英国皇家文学学会成员，曾获毛姆文学奖、惠特布雷德传记奖和英国皇家文学学会的威廉•海涅曼奖，2003年因其在写作方面的卓越贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。 【译者简介】 赵国新 北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事，中国国家图书馆“文津讲坛”特聘教授。主要从事西方文论和19世纪英国小说研究，主持过多项国家级和省部级课题。已出版《20世纪西方文论选读》《西方古典文论选读》《自由及其背叛》《现代西方思想史：1789年至今》等专著或译著二十余部。

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)