The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant (ISBN 0-671-21988-X) is an 11 volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime and totals 6 million words.

Series Outline

• I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

1. The Establishment of Civilization
2. The Near East
3. India and her Neighbors
4. The Far East
5. Japan

• II. The Life of Greece (1939)

1. Aegean Prelude: 3500-1000 B.C.
2. The Rise of Greece: 1000-480 B.C.
3. The Golden Age: 480-399 B.C.
4. The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom: 399-322 B.C.
5. The Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 B.C.

Bust of Julius Caesar

• III. Caesar and Christ (1944)

1. The Republic: 508-30 B.C.
2. The Revolution: 145-30 B.C.
3. The Principate: 30 B.C.-A.D. 192
4. The Empire: A.D. 146-A.D. 192
5. The Youth of Christianity: 4 B.C.-A.D. 325

• IV. The Age of Faith (1950)
• V. The Renaissance (1953)
• VI. The Reformation (1957)

• VII. The Age of Reason Begins (1961)

1. The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648
2. The Faiths Fight For Power: 1556-1648
3. The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648

• VIII. The Age of Louis XIV (1963)
• IX. The Age of Voltaire (1965)

1. England: 1714–56
2. France: 1723–56
3. Middle Europe: 1713–56
4. The Advancement of Learning: 1715–89
5. The Attack Upon Christianity: 1730–74

• X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)

This volume received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968.

1. Prelude
2. France Before the Deluge: 1757–74
3. The Catholic South: 1715–89
4. Islam and the Slavic East: 1715–96
5. The Protestant North: 1756–89
6. Johnson's England: 1756–89
7. The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774–89

• XI. The Age of Napoleon (1975)

1. The French Revolution: 1789–99
2. Napoleon Ascendant: 1799–1811
3. Britain: 1789–1812
4. The Challenged Kings: 1789–1812
5. Finale: 1811–1815