Ernst Gombrich: A Little History of the World

ISBN: 9780300143324
Author: Ernst Gombrich
Page: 304
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2008
Format: Book
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English

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Price: 8 490 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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 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 twenty-five 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 theWorld 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 savoured and collected. 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.

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