Seventy years ago the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich, later the author of the global bestseller The Story of Art, wrote a history of the world for younger readers. Now available for the first time in English, this timeless book 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. Each chapter is accompanied by an original illustration by Clifford Harper.
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A 2013 World Book Night selection.
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.
A Little History of the World features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, History, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, History and Archaeology
A Little History of the World is available in Paperback, Hardback
A Little History of the World was written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Yale University Press
A Little History of the World has 284 pages
Yes it is part of Little Histories series
