“大学生英语文库”是一套面向中国学生的英语系列读物，各本均为注释性读本。
《世界简史》是英国**作家H.G.Wells 撰写的一部颇具特色的世界史，内容上溯人类文明的开端，下至第二次世界大战。对古代埃及、古代希腊罗马、欧洲文艺复兴、宗教改革、英国工业革命、美国独立战争、法国大革命等，都有独到的叙述。对东方文化，包括儒家和道家，均有所涉及。
本书英语规范标准，行文流畅，文采飞扬，不愧大家手笔。经过详尽注释，适合文理各科大学生、研究生和广大英语自学者学习之用。读者在了解世界历史的同时，可提高英语阅读能力，并学到大量有关的英语词汇。

1.The Beginnings of Cultivation
2.Primitive Neolithic Civilisations
3.Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
4.Primitive Nomadic Peoples
5.The First Sea-going Peoples
6.Egypt, Babylon and Assyria
7.The Primitive Aryans
8.The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
9.The Early History of the Jews
10.Priests and Prophets in Judea
11.The Greeks
12.The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
13.The Splendour of Greece
14.The Empire of Alexander the Great
15.The Museum and Library at Alexandria
16 The Life of Gautama Buddha
17 King Asoka
18 Confucius and Lao Tse
19 Rome Comes into History
20 Rome and Carthage
21 The Growth of the Roman Empire
22 Between Rome and China
23 The Common Mans Life Under the Early Roman Empire
24 Religious Developments under the ROman Empire
25 The Teaching of Jesus
26 The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
27 The Barbarians Break the Empire intoi East and West
28 The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
29 THe Baxantine and Sassanid Empires
30 The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China
31 Muhammad and Islam
32 The Great Days of the Arabs
33 The Development of Latin Christendom
34 The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
35 Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
36 The Mongol Conquests
37 The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
38 The Reformation of the Latin Church
39 THe Emperor Charles V
40 THe Age of Political Experiments,of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republi Canism in Europe
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