A Little History of the World
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A Little History of the World
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Ralph Cosham
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E. H. Gombrich
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-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. It is now an international bestseller and available in almost thirty 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 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.
©1985 DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag GmbH und Co. KG, Cologne, Germany. English translation 2005 Leonie Gombrich (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.
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"A remarkable book, written in an amiable, conversational style....This resurrected history deserves reading for all its delights." ( The New York Times)
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This book is really amazing! I love it
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As the title says:a little history of the world.
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It’s also really sad that the Eastern Europe — and there’s so much more to say about Russia, Poland and Baltic countries — is almost completely omitted. And things like “most Russians tsars’ destiny was to be killed by their people” are...simply not true. Also telling young listeners that the Russian tsar Alexander II was killed by his people because he was hated by them, and giving an overall not very sympathetic impression of him (while not directly mentioning his name), whereas he was the one to abolish the serfdom and introduce many liberal reforms...well. What can I say. When all this comes with an introduction which roughly reads like “Russia still lived in the Middle Ages”, while just a few moments ago we had heard that in the US slavery was abolished in 1865 (and Russian serfdom in 1861)...it just puzzles me a bit.
Apart from these few disappointments I find the book marvelous. It’s a pity I didn’t know of its existence while a child myself.
The narrator did a great job as well.
An overall great book, with a few exceptions
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