A Little History of the World

A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

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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 by a publishing acquaintance 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 seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English

ISBN: 9780300176148

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Tim Urban

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"Super comprehensive history of everything. As if your grandfather were sitting around with a bunch of little kids explaining it."

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