In the canon
A Short History of the World
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1922
- Pages
- Pages 400
Begin where Wells begins: a ball of molten rock turning in the dark, no ocean yet, no air a lung could use, nothing anywhere alive. Then the seas cool, something stirs in the shallows, and he walks you forward without once letting go of your sleeve: the long reptile silence, the first worked flint in a human hand, Egypt, Athens, the Mongol horsemen, gunpowder and the printing press, and at last the trenches he had watched swallow a generation.
Man is still only adolescent. His troubles are not the troubles of senility and exhaustion but of increasing and still undisciplined strength.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.