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A Little History of the World

Library Edition (Classic Collection)

By E.H. Gombrich

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| Others | 9780786177080

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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge LeserContinue

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world.

Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected.

In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.

The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

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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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  • Great Little History

    I thoroughly enjoyed this. Gombrich has a wonderful authorial voice. It's a book written for children, yes, but it's still informative and pleasant reading for an adult.

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    titilayo said on Mar 3, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • 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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    Albe said on Nov 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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