A Short History of the World

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells first published by Cassell & Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922. It was first published in Penguin Books in 1936. Later editions were published with updated accounts of world events. It was republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outlin...