哈瑞斯与佩夫斯纳接触的那段时间也见证了战后英国文化和社会方面巨大的变化。
Ms Harries's life of Pevsner traces the great changes in artistic and social attitudes in post-war Britain.
佩夫斯纳很多作品都属于那种总结或者评价性的，但这本传记由很多小章节组成，到处都是细节方面的描写，但是每一章节又恰到好处的短。
Pevsner's many publications are summarised and assessed. This is a long book, crammed with detail, but its chapters are short and well-paced.
尼古拉斯·佩夫斯纳爵士1902年出生在德国莱比锡城一个有教养的中产阶级犹太人家庭，在1933年在哥廷根，他被迫放弃艺术史学家这一颇有前途的学术工作。
Nikolaus Pevsner, who was born in 1902 into a cultured, bourgeois Jewish family in Leipzig, was forced to abandon a promising academic career as an art historian in Göttingen in 1933.
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