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15 nov 1977 · Will Durant, Ariel Durant. 4.00. 93 ratings12 reviews. In this readable autobiography by the authors of The Story of Civilization, Will & Ariel Durant celebrate & examine a lifetime of ideas, friendships, triumphs & love. The story of their life together, rich in anecdotes & with the countless famous people they knew, is a passionate record of ...
16 ott 2015 · Come, let me tell you of my favorite historians of all time - Will and Ariel Durant. Their books were once mandatory to any proper history collection, and e...
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Thenceforth, except for some incidental essays and Will’s lecture tours, Mr. and Mrs. Durant gave nearly all their working hours (eight to fourteen daily) to The Story of Civilization. To better prepare themselves they toured Europe in 1927, went around the world in 1930 to study Egypt, the Near East, India, China, and Japan, and toured the globe again in 1932 to visit Japan, Manchuria ...
Will Durant has 732 books on Goodreads with 282287 ratings. Will Durant’s most popular book is The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Wor...
Ariel Durant (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t /; May 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981) was a Russian-born American researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Biography Ariel and Will Durant in the library of their home in Los Angeles, 1967
Durant wrote Heroes of History more for the layman than the scholar. Historical facts were interspersed with the author's opinions and reflections. "This book is likely to find a wide audience among those looking for an introduction to world history", says John Little of Publishers Weekly, "but the absence of a bibliography and source notes may denote to scholars a certain lack of rigor."
Biography. American historian and educator. He studied for the priesthood while working as a professor of Latin and French. Disillusioned, he left in 1911 and moved to New York, rebelling as a radical anarchist. In 1917, he completed his Ph.D. Durant published "The Story of Philosophy" in 1926.
