But Durant lived longer than he anticipated (he died at 96), so he decided to devote his final years to a bonus book on Napoleon. His previous book, Rousseau and Revolution, ends with a final bow. (I originally skipped it because it struck me as absurd to squeeze all of Asia into one volume and then cover Europe in ten but for the sake of completion I suppose I will have to read it.)ĭurant did not plan to write this volume. Now all I need to do is to read the first volume of the series, Our Oriental Heritage, in order to bring my voyage to its end. Though I have had some occasions to criticize Durant over the years, the fact that I have dragged myself through ten lengthy volumes of his writing is compliment enough. It was four long years ago when I first read The Life of Greece and these have been the four most educational years of my life, in part thanks to The Story of Civilization. شربیانیįinally I have come to the last book in this series.

The series ends with The Age of Napoleon because the Durants both died – she in her 80's and he in his 90's – before they could complete additional volumes. The Age of Napoleon (The Story Of Civilization #11), Will Durant

The story of civilization volume 11