The project was conceived as a series of audio lectures, but Durant soon realised that the dialogues could be developed into a book that would serve as a wonderfully readable introduction to the subject of history.ĭurant completed twenty-one of a proposed twenty-three chapters before his death in 1981, at the age of ninety-six.
In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces 'The Story Of Civilization' and 'The Lessons Of History', Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilisation, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.įour years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly acclaimed eleven-volume series, 'The Story Of Civilization'. From Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age.
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