![]() One of my faults, which caused frustration at school, but hey. I consider myself quite a well read and intelligent person on the whole, but I have a complete lack of interest in history. ![]() However, from my perspective, i found it to be an informative book that was not meant to fully 'inform', but to provide a taster or peek (if you will) of some of the major events in history. "I have had a read of the comments and reviews about this book, and tend to agree (more or less) with both sides of the coin which have been argued by his readers. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history. ![]() 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. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. It is now an international bestseller and available in almost thirty languages across the world. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success. ![]() 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. ![]()
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