The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)
Will Durant, Ariel Durant, "The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)"
1993 | ISBN-10: 1567310230 | ASIN: B000OEA066 | 9766 pages | EPUB | 128 MB
1993 | ISBN-10: 1567310230 | ASIN: B000OEA066 | 9766 pages | EPUB | 128 MB
This magisterial work represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.
The series was written over a span of more than four decades. It totals four million words across nearly 10,000 pages, but is incomplete. In the first volume (Our Oriental Heritage, which covers the history of the East through 1933), Will Durant stated that he wanted to include the history of the West through the early 20th century. However, the series ends with The Age of Napoleon because the Durants both died – she in her 80s and he in his 90s – before they could complete additional volumes.
The series won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 with the 10th volume in the series, "Rousseau and Revolution."
01. Our Oriental Heritage
02. The Life of Greece
03. Caesar and Christ
04. The Age of Faith
05. The Renaissance
06. The Reformation
07. The Age of Reason Begins
08. The Age of Louis XIV
09. The Age of Voltaire
10. Rousseau and Revolution
11. The Age of Napoleon