My grandfather added a new final chapter-and was once again delighted by the book’s success, and the many translations that have followed. Though publication was stopped by the Nazis-because they considered the outlook "too pacifist "-it was reissued thirty years later. When the book came out, in 1936, it was very well received, reviewers assuming that my grandfather must be an experienced teacher. For this little book would never have been written at all were it not for the unusual circumstances that presented themselves in Vienna in 1935. He wrote it as a young man and in a considerable rush, and later considered that both these factors contributed to its long lived appeal. He was therefore delighted and astonished in almost equal degree that his very first book, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, should have endured so long and found so many friends all over the world. Nor did he study history at university: art history was his subject. My grandfather Ernst Gombrich did not usually write for children.
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