In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no
prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt
a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the
task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge
Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now
available in twenty-five languages across the world. In forty concise
chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the
atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful 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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