內容簡介
本書選錄不同國家多位名人的軼事，包括哲學家、科學家、詩人、作家、畫家、音樂家、政治家等。每篇都是由知名人士講述，或由名人自述，內容有趣，敘述生動，語言雋雅。閱讀名人軼事就有一種走近名人，與篇中人物同悲共樂的感覺，使我們能深刻地感受人情世故，了解人生。
目錄
| 總序 | | 體例說明 | | 閱讀與學習 | | 前言 | | 1 Lived to See It Appear - Copernicus | | 2 An Artificial Nose - Tycho Brahe | | 3 Wait a Century - Kepler | | 4 Extreme Absence - Newton | | 5 The Anecdote of the Apple - Newton | | 6 Interested in Everything - Thomas Edison | | 7 A Banquet Made of Tongues - Aesop | | 8 The Young Werther - Goethe | | 9 Terror of Getting Fat - George Gordon Byron | | 10 Anybody Can Do That - Alfred Tennyson | | 11 Writing While Chatting - Charles Dickens | | 12 Books for Signature - Thomas Hardy | | 13 I became a Tramp - Jack London | | 14 Observation - Da Vinci | | 15 Broken English - G.F. Handel | | 16 Pure Joy - Beethoven | | 17 No Desire of Profiting - Benjamin Franklin | | 18 Tragedies of Money - Abraham Lincoln | | 19 His Powerful Physique - Bismarck | | 20 Spoken English - Lenin | | 21 Love Affair with Painting - Winston Churchill | | 22 The Youngest Hosted - Franklin Roosevelt | | 23 To Fine Everybody - La Guardia | | 24 She Was Justified - Florence Nightingale | | 25 The Roof Leaks - F.L.Wright |
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