Автор:H. G. Wells Год: 1924 Издание:The Labour Publishing Company Страниц: 272 ISBN: [не указан] Прижизненное издание. Лондон, 1924 год. Издательство The Labour Publishing Company Limited. Издательский переплет. Сохранность хорошая. На форзаце присутствуют надписи предыдущего владельца чернилами, ручкой и карандашом. На страницах книги присутствуют временные пятна. This SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD is meant to be read straightforwardly almost as a novel is read. It gives in the most general way an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn of elaborations and complications. From it the reader should be able to get that general view of history which is so necessary a framework for the study of a particular period or the history of a particular country. It may be found useful as a preparatory excursion before the reading of the author's much fuller and more explicit Outline of History is undertaken. But its especial end is to meet the needs of the busy general reader, too driven to study the maps and time charts of that Outline in detail, who wishes to...
