DURANT, WILL & ARIEL - THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION - [9 IN SOUTH AFRICA
All 9 in very good condition - The two missing volumes are The age of faith (# 4) and the age of Napoleon (# 11) - This lot must be picked up in Pretoria as they are going to cost too much to post - Contains the following:- Vol 1 Our Oriental Heritage Vol 2 The Life of Greece Vol 3 Caesar and Christ V ol 5 The Renaissance Vol 6 The Reformation Vol 7 The Age of Reason Begins Vol 8 The Age of Louis XIV Vol 9 The Age of Voltaire Vol 10 Rousseau and Revolution >>> William James Durant (1885/11/05-1981/11/07) a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher, is best known for the eleven-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant (1898/05/10-1981/10/25) and published between 1935 and 1975. T he superb organization of their books, combined with an eminently readable style, won the Durants millions of fans. Ariel and Will Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford and Ariel was nominated as "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles. The Durants' autobiography A Dual Autobiography was published in 1978. (Masonic references appear in five of the eleven volumes.)
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