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A 2006 Book Sense Highlight
Named a Favorite Book of 2005 by the Los Angeles Times
E. H. Gombrich's world history, a global bestseller available these days in English for the very first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience over the centuries, helpful information to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
[Translated by Caroline Mustill]
[Read by Ralph Cosham]
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of employment, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to try a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the duty in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser (A Short World History for Young Readers) was published in Vienna to immediate success. It is now a global 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 over the centuries, helpful information to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of an generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the entire span of history, for the curious of most ages.
