…Creator: Isaac Newton & his Times Newton Opticks Newton Principia (get the modern English translation by U.C. Press) Hampson The Enlightenment Voltaire Candide Rousseau The Social Contract Boswell Life of Johnson Goethe Faust Phillips The Cousins' Wars Schom Napoleon Bonaparte Heidler & Heidler Old Hickory's War Babbage On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures de Toqueville Democracy in America Darwin…
18th Century. It's completely readable, as are many other works written at the same time, such as Boswell's Life of Johnson. As for the 16th (and early 17th) century - Shakespeare?
…define this as "10 books that I'd recommend to my 40-years-younger self to prioritize", and leave aside the problem that 2 or 3 of these would not yet have been published. The Iliad Shakespeare The Life of Johnson Federalist Papers Pride and Prejudice Ulysses The Waste Land The Selfish Gene The Making of the Atomic Bomb Infinite Jest
One thing that struck me when I read Boswell’s Life of Johnson more than twenty years ago is how strange Johnson seems to have been in person yet how strongly he was admired and loved—at least in Boswell’s telling—by people who knew him. Boswell mentions his “oddities…
From Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, entry for April 19, 1773 (Courtesy of gutenberg.org): Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,)…
……造物主：艾萨克·牛顿及其时代 牛顿《光学》 牛顿《自然哲学的数学原理》（建议买加州大学出版社的现代英译本） 汉普森《启蒙运动》 伏尔泰《老实人》 卢梭《社会契约论》 鲍斯威尔《约翰逊传》 歌德《浮士德》 菲利普斯《表亲之战》 肖姆《拿破仑·波拿巴》 海德勒夫妇《老山胡桃的战争》 巴贝奇《论机器和制造业的经济》 托克维尔《论美国的民主》 达尔文……
…Creator: Isaac Newton & his Times Newton Opticks Newton Principia (get the modern English translation by U.C. Press) Hampson The Enlightenment Voltaire Candide Rousseau The Social Contract Boswell Life of Johnson Goethe Faust Phillips The Cousins' Wars Schom Napoleon Bonaparte Heidler & Heidler Old Hickory's War Babbage On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures de Toqueville Democracy in America Darwin…
18 世纪。读起来完全没有障碍，当时写就的许多其他作品也一样，比如鲍斯威尔的《约翰逊传》。至于 16 世纪（以及 17 世纪初）——莎士比亚？
18th Century. It's completely readable, as are many other works written at the same time, such as Boswell's Life of Johnson. As for the 16th (and early 17th) century - Shakespeare?
鲍斯威尔的《约翰逊传》。我有一本牛津大学出版社的老精装本，用苏格兰罗马体印刷，拿在手里本身就是一种充满复古仪式感的体验。
Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have an old OUP hardback in Scotch Roman that is an old-fashioned experience in itself.
……把这定义为“我会推荐给 40 年前年轻的自己去优先阅读的 10 本书”，先抛开其中两三本当时还没出版的问题。《伊利亚特》、莎士比亚、《约翰逊传》、《联邦党人文集》、《傲慢与偏见》、《尤利西斯》、《荒原》、《自私的基因》、《原子弹秘史》、《无尽的玩笑》
…define this as "10 books that I'd recommend to my 40-years-younger self to prioritize", and leave aside the problem that 2 or 3 of these would not yet have been published. The Iliad Shakespeare The Life of Johnson Federalist Papers Pride and Prejudice Ulysses The Waste Land The Selfish Gene The Making of the Atomic Bomb Infinite Jest
二十多年前我读鲍斯威尔的《约翰逊传》时，有件事触动了我：约翰逊本人在现实中看起来是那么古怪，然而认识他的人却——至少在鲍斯威尔的叙述中——对他无比钦佩和爱戴。鲍斯威尔提到了他的“怪癖……
One thing that struck me when I read Boswell’s Life of Johnson more than twenty years ago is how strange Johnson seems to have been in person yet how strongly he was admired and loved—at least in Boswell’s telling—by people who knew him. Boswell mentions his “oddities…
出自鲍斯威尔的《约翰逊传》，1773 年 4 月 19 日记录（由 gutenberg.org 提供）：埃尔芬斯顿先生谈起一本广受赞誉的新书，问约翰逊博士是否读过。约翰逊：“我翻过几眼。”埃尔芬斯顿：“怎么（说呢，）……
From Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, entry for April 19, 1773 (Courtesy of gutenberg.org): Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. 'I have looked into it.' 'What (said Elphinston,)…