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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 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: illustrated edition
2011, Yale University Press
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0300176147 9780300176148
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Little History of the World: Classic Collection (Classic Collection) [UNABRIDGED]
June 15, 2006, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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0786144661 9780786144662
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A Little History of the World: Library Edition (Classic Collection)
June 2006, Blackstone Audiobooks
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Little History of the World: Classic Collection (Classic Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Collection)
June 15, 2006, Blackstone Audiobooks
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