A Little History of the World

by Ернст Ґомбріх

Blurb

A Little History of the World is a history book by Ernst Gombrich. It was written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria, when Gombrich was 26 years old. He was rewriting it for English readers when he died in 2001, at 92, in London. Gombrich insisted only he translate it into English. After his death the translation was completed by Caroline Mustill, an assistant to Gombrich from 1995 until his death, and granddaughter Leonie Gombrich, it was published in 2005 by Yale University Press.

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