A Little History of the World

World history. History. The classic popular history, now for the first time in large print. In 1935, with a doctorate and no job, the twenty-five year old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for young readers. Written in an intense six weeks, Eine Kurze Weltgeshichte fur Junge Leser was first published in Vienna the same year. An immediate success, it has since been translated into seventeen languages. The original German edition was reissued in 1985 with an epilogue bringing the story to the present, and Gombrich further revised it shortly before his death, aged 92, in 2001. "Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read." - Guardian. "I doubt if it could be bettered." - Literary Review. "Had I a dozen grandchildren ... I'd order two dozen copies, one for the children, the other for their parents." - Evening Standard.