聽哈佛教授講經典（上）

by William Allan Neilson

《哈佛經典》被胡適先生稱為“奇書”，而《哈佛經典講座》則是此部奇書的導讀卷。收錄人類有史以來至19世紀末最經典的話題，由哈佛教授以優美的語言，娓娓道來。閱讀此導讀卷，恍如置身哈佛大學聆聽名師講座，了解人類觀察、記錄、思考、發明的演變過程。

此書分上、下良策，由《哈佛經典講座》重新編排輯錄而成。

上冊四篇：歷史、哲學、宗教、政治經濟學

下冊四篇：詩歌、小說、喜劇、文學批評與隨筆

240 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2010

About the author

William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a Ph.D. in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939.

Neilson was born in Doune, Scotland and he emigrated to the United States in 1895, being naturalised 3 August 1905. He taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1898 to 1900, Harvard from 1900 to 1904, Columbia from 1904 to 1906, and Harvard again from 1906 to 1917. Neilson was author of a number of critical works on William Shakespeare, Robert Burns and the Elizabethan theatre, editor of the Cambridge and Tudor editions of Shakespeare (1906, 1911) and editor of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934). Less known is his translation of the famous late 14th century Middle English alliterative chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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