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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I'm just a big history geek but I couldn't put this down. I found the ancient history the most interesting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I hunted this book down after realising it was a book I needed in my life, my knowledge of history was patchy at best, Eurocentric and in a bit of a jumble. <br/>David Attenborough was in a similar pickle when he was appointed head of the new BBC2, and this was the book that set him straight ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22938413">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it about 3 years after reading War of the Worlds. My Dad was an avid reader, &amp; he had accumulated some very interesting books. I had no idea really there was a 2nd volume, I just uncovered this book will looking for another. I thank Goodreads for this rare gem, as I probably wouldn't have fou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60524618">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ Several revised versions were produced during Wells' lifetime. He kept notes on factual corrections he received from educators around the world. The last revision in his lifetime was published in 1939. In 1949, an expanded version was produced by author &amp; scholar Raymond Postgate, whose additional material initially expanded the timeline thru WWII, with subsequent additions thru 1969. Postgate respected that readers wished &quot;to hear the views of Wells, not Postgate&quot;, &amp; endeavored to preserve the original authorial voice in his revisions. In the later editions, G. P. Wells, the author's son, updated the early chapters about prehistory to reflect current theories; previous editions, for instance, reflected the credence given to the Piltdown Man hoax. The final edition appeared in 1971, but earlier editions are still in print.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having just given a glowing review of Will and Ariel Durant's eleven volume history of human civilization, some mention of Wells' own, earlier and much shorter (two volumes in the current editions expanded by his son) attempt to bring it all together seems appropriate. <br/><br/>While it is very i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29391743">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been procrastinating writing this review, because I hate saying that something by HG Wells really wasn't all that good. It reads like most history books from that era. It was dry, had very little detail on any one person, but plenty of details on events and transactions, and it jumped all over ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48665781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I only have volume 2. Picked it up for 10 cents at a garage sale.  If this is good I will search for volume 1. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great outline of world history, from the formation of the solar system through WWII. Puts everything in perspective. <br/><br/>BUT, great as it is, I can't actually endorse this book. After reading it, it came to my attention that in all likelihood 'Outline' is a complete plagiarization of a boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12085023">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating from a cultural-historical perspective (trying to imagine Wells' frames of reference and open-mindedness in the years 1918-1929)<br/><br/>Not a bad choice for the average US citizen to read just for filling in our cultural gaps, still true today as in the 30s. <br/><br/>Interesting, to m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55243235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It had some elements that were an advance in its time--taking up the whole world and not just &quot;Western civilization&quot;; trying to give cultural history and not just &quot;great men and wars,&quot; etc.; starting with the geological origin of the earth and the origin of humanity through evolu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36373989">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought an edition for 25 cents in some old barn of a place.  Was pleased to see it in Scott Fitzgerald's education of Sheila.  Now it's dated, a bit creaky.  But it was fun then, when school seemed all about American history and Rousseau/Marx sort of world history.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though the history is technically out of date; I enjoy reading what H.G. Wells had set out to do with his history and how it tries very had not to be euro-centric.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To show how much of a geek I was, I remember reading a copy of this in elementary school!<br/><br/>Sadly, I'm not sure any elementary school today would have any copies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've finished the first volume and am planning to start on the second. It's very good so far.]]></body>
    
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