![]() Ranging in their work over the entire spectrum of human activity, Mr. Durant spent from three to six years on each of the volumes, traveling the world, poring over as many as 500 books for every one he wrote. Durant's 90th year, the series represented its authors' attempt to provide a coherent synthesis and description of every aspect of the entire story of civilization.Įager and thorough, irrepressibly enthusiastic and unflaggingly energetic, Mr. Spanning 11,000 years of human history, from "Our Oriental Heritage," which appeared in 1935, to "The Age of Napoleon," published in 1975 in Mr. ![]() 25 at their home in Los Angeles was apparently never given to her husband, who had been in intensive care for three weeks following surgery. His death came 13 days after that of his wife, Ariel, who was his collaborator on most volumes of the series and was his coauthor on the last five. ![]() ![]() The author and teacher, whose volumes sold in the millions and buttress home libraries across the nation, died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai hospital. Will Durant, 96, a student, scholar and popularizer of history and philosophy who devoted much of his life to writing "The Story of Civilization," a monumental and much-praised 11-volume work, died late Saturday in Los Angeles. ![]()
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