A Little History of the World

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• A Little History of the World

  The German version of this marvellous history for children was written in a mere six weeks in 1935 by an unknown 26-year-old art history graduate who later became known as the distinguished art historian EH Gombrich. He was still working on an Englis ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• A little history for little people

  Ernst Gombrich, the Austrian art historian best known for the international bestseller The Story of Art, wrote this concise world history for children in 1935. Like its successor, it was hugely popular, charting the story of mankind from the Stone Ag ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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• The author would like the reader to relax and to follow the story without having to take notes or to memorise names and dates. And that's exactly what has happened to me.

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• English Books
• Paperback 304 Pages
• ISBN-10: 030014332X
• ISBN-13: 9780300143324
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Pub date: Oct 07, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken

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