[E. H. Gombrich] A Little History of the World

Autor: E. H. Gombrich
Tytuł: A Little History of the World
ISBN: 9780300143324
Wydawca: Yale Univ Pr
Przybliżona ilość stron: 284
Oprawa: Paperback
Przybliżone wymiary i waga: 2.4 cm x 21.4 cm x 0.36 kg x 14.2 cm

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The international bestseller available in English for the first time: E. H. Gombrich’s world history for the curious of all ages…

Publishers Weekly

This is an unusual work for Yale: a children’s history originally published 70 years ago. But it is a work one can quickly come to love. Gombrich, later known as an art historian, wrote this primer in 1935, when he was a young man in Vienna (it was soon banned by the Nazis as too pacifist). Rewritten (and updated) in English mainly by Gombrich himself (who died in 2001, age 92, while working on it), the book is still aimed at children, as the language makes clear: Then, slowly the clouds parted to reveal the starry night of the Middle Ages. But while he addresses his readers directly at times, Gombrich never talks down to them. Using vivid imagery, storytelling and sly humor, he brings history to life in a way that adults as well as children can appreciate. The book displays a breadth of knowledge, as Gombrich begins with prehistoric man and ends with the close of WWII. In the final, newly added chapter, Gombrich’s tone sadly darkens as he relates the rise of Hitler and his own escape from the Holocaust-children, he writes, must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings-and ends on a note of cautious optimism about humanity’s future. (Oct. 13) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.