A Little History of the World

“It was long ago”—that’s how all the best stories in the world begin, including “A Little History of the World,” written by the great historian and art historian Ernst Gombrich in 1936, when he wasn’t great yet and only just became a historian. Instead of stuffing a young (or not-so-young) reader with dates and facts, this fascinating audiobook will unfold a breath-taking panorama of human existence on the planet Earth—from the Stone Age to the Atomic Age.

Gombrich describes wars and revolutions; great works of art; scientific breakthroughs and dead ends that scholars walked into. Everything interests him—from the invention of cave painting to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from Confucius to Churchill. Translated into dozens of languages, “A Little History of the World” is now being released in Russian as well. Enjoy listening.