Written for children some seventy years ago - before the author's ground-breaking The Story of Art (bwl 13) - but published in English for the first time last year, this little book tells in an almost grandfatherly manner the history of western civilisation from the Stone Age to the age of the atom. The clarity and confidence of the writing make it a pleasure to read. Astonishingly, the author wrote it in six weeks when he was only 26.
(Diana Davies - bwl 35 July 2006 ) |
