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A Little History of the World - Gombrich, E.H.; Harper, Clifford - Yale University Press
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E.H. Gombrich; Translated by Caroline Mustill; Illustrated by Clifford Harper
Named a Favorite Book of 2005 by the Los Angeles Times Featured in the 2006 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries A 2006 Book Sense Highlight E.H. Gombrich was awarded the 1985 International Balzan Foundation Prize
Click here to listen to an interview with the author on the Yale Press Podcast. Click here to listen to a conversation with Leonie Gombrich, the author's granddaughter, on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.
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.
Among E. H. GOMBRICH’s many writings are the international bestsellers The Story of Art and Art and Illusion. He was director of the Warburg Institute of the University of London from 1959 to 1976.
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