The Age of Voltaire
by:
Will Durant (author)
Ariel Durant (author)
Volume 9 in the Durant series The Story of Civilization... this volume follows the forerunner of the French Revolution.
Volume 9 in the Durant series The Story of Civilization... this volume follows the forerunner of the French Revolution.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780671013257 (0671013254)
Publish date: December 25th 1980
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 898
Edition language: English
Series: The Story of Civilization 0 (#9)
The authors look at the bricks that go into making up the building of civilization (and more so than with the other volumes in the series they mean the 'cultured man' (almost always a man in this telling)). But, sometimes to understand the whole building it's best not to dwell too much on each of th...