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Will & Ariel Durant: A Dual Autobiography
by
Will Durant
,
Ariel Durant
In this magnificently readable autobiography by the authors of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant celebrate and examine a lifetime of ideas, friendships, triumphs and love. The story of their life together, rich in brilliant anecdotes and with the names of the countless famous people they knew, is a passionate record of their shared experience as lovers, as h
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Hardcover
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420 pages
Published
November 15th 1977
by Simon & Schuster
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I love the Durants. I read their elegant prose as though it were Biblical. I feel guilty if I don't read it slowly, savoring it. Remember your history books from school? How absolutely dry and boring they were? The Durants talk about the same thing and add a beautiful style to it. I always told myself, after I wolfed down their Story of Civilization, that I would read it again one day, carefully. I hope I still will.
Nothing like these two, nor like their work. You may already know them from their 11-volume Story of Civilization or other works. Here is their personal story, an amazing journey of love, scholarship, world travel, history, ideas... Unique, and wonderfully told.
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William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for his book, The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which was considered "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy."
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