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 twenty-five languages across the world.Given his subsequent career, it is not a surprise that Gombrich’s text suggests illustrations on every page. 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. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. First published in English in 2005, A Little History of the World has sold over half a million copies and become one of the treasures of historical writing.
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