Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization I)
by Durant, Will
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxii, 1049 pp. Twenty-fifth printing. Light rubbing to the cover edges; the spine titles are faded. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
Synopsis
From [the Wikipedia page for *The Story of Civilization*][1]: 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 volumes sold well for many years, and sets of them were frequently offered by book clubs. The series was written over a span of more than four decades, and 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 in the 1980s – she in her 80s and he in his 90s – before they could complete additional volumes. The first six volumes of The Story of Civilization are credited to Will Durant, with Ariel receiving recognition in the acknowledgements. In later volumes, beginning with The Age of Reason Begins, Ariel is credited as a co-author. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization
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- Persephone's Books
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- Title
- Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization I)
- Author
- Durant, Will
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC) 5th or later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 1049
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- History - Ancient General
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