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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and
no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a
publishing acquaintance 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 seventeen languages across the world. </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">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 savored and collected. </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells
the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a
colorful 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. </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">The product of a generous and humane
sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human
history.</span></span></p>

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<p><strong><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">About the Author</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">E.
H. GOMBRICH</span></span></b><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">
author of the international six- million-copy bestseller The Story of Art and
other classic works, was probably the best-known art historian of his time.
Born in Vienna in 1909 he moved to London in 1936 where he later became
Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical
Tradition at London University. Among his many honours were the Erasmus Prize,
the Hegel Prize, the Wittgenstein Prize and the Goethe Prize. He was knighted
in 1972 and appointed a member of the Order of Merit in 1988.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">CAROLINE
MUSTILL</span></span></b><span alt=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Proxima Nova Alt Lt&quot;">
Was researcher and assistant to Sir Ernst Gombrich from 1995 to 2001.</span></span></p>

