in English and in the original German.
Beloved History Book Gets Translation
EH Gombrich's A Little History will be translated for the first time into English. The late writer's granddaughter, working with translator Caroline Mustill, finished the English translation her grandfather had left unfinished. Ernst Gombrich died at the age of 92 a couple of months after the 9/11 attacks, apparently losing the heart to finish the work after the tragedy. Gombrich's History was banned by the Nazis, deemed to pacifistic. It sounds perfectly charming, a history for children that otherwise would delight all ages--and very different from the dry scholarly style so seemingly favoured in that genre.
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