In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king the revolution’s leaders – Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, and Saint-Just – all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated Napoleon’s meteoric rise from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history Napoleon’s fall – his army’s destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe and the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era. The Age of Napoleon, the 11th and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In later volumes, beginning with The Age of Reason Begins, Ariel is credited as a co-author.An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. 34 editions The Age of Napoleon surveys the amazing chain of e Want to Read Rate it: Book 1-11 The Story of Civilization by Will Durant 4.

This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize. The first six volumes of The Story of Civilization are credited to Will Durant, with Ariel receiving recognition in the acknowledgements. The Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel DurantThe Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. 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. 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. A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. 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. Simon & Schuster., 1975 - Civilization - 870 pages. The volumes sold well for many years, and sets of them were frequently offered by book clubs. 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. Read 99 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers.

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