A Little History of The World. - Couverture souple

Gombrich, E. H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 030014332X ISBN 13 : 9780300143324

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2008

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-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, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savoured and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful 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.

Revue de presse :

Had I a dozen grandchildren... I'd order two dozen copies, one for the children, the other for their parents. --The Evening Standard

Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read. --The Guardian

I doubt if it could be bettered. --The Literary Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 030014332X
• ISBN 13: 9780300143324
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Illustrateur: Harper Clifford