"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.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 – his Little History of the World. In fact, I promise that I shall not examine them on what they have read."
I would like my readers to relax, and to follow the story without having to take notes or to memorise names and dates. "I want to stress," he wrote, in his preface to the Turkish edition a few years ago, "that this book is not, and never was, intended to replace any textbooks of history that may serve a very different purpose at school. My grandfather added a new final chapter-and was once again delighted by the book’s success, and the many translations that have followed. Though publication was stopped by the Nazis-because they considered the outlook "too pacifist"-it was reissued thirty years later. When the book came out, in 1936, it was very well received, reviewers assuming that my grandfather must be an experienced teacher. In fact, I promise that I shall not examine them on what they have read." From the Author: Though publication was stopped by the Nazis-because they considered the outlook "too pacifist "-it was reissued thirty years later.
For this little book would never have been written at all were it not for the unusual circumstances that presented themselves in Vienna in 1935. He wrote it as a young man and in a considerable rush, and later considered that both these factors contributed to its long lived appeal. He was therefore delighted and astonished in almost equal degree that his very first book, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, should have endured so long and found so many friends all over the world. Nor did he study history at university: art history was his subject. My grandfather Ernst Gombrich did not usually write for children.
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