Beloved History Book Gets Translation
16th Sep 2005, 17:31 GMT
Anonymous Patron writes "Seventy years after it was rushed into print, a history book beloved by readers of all ages around the world is finally coming out in English. Yahoo! News reports E.H. Gombrich, the scholar best known for his classic, "The Story of Art," was a 26-year-old scholar in 1935 when a British publisher asked for his opinion of a children's history book, which was supposed to be translated into Gombrich's native German."
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