Fallen Leaves
eBook - ePub

Fallen Leaves

Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fallen Leaves

Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

About this book

Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world's greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant's career he received numerous letters from "curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate." With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge.In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is "a thought-provoking array of opinions" ( Publishers Weekly ), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant's revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant's singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life's journey.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter One: Our Life Begins
  5. Chapter Two: On Youth
  6. Chapter Three: On Middle Age
  7. Chapter Four: On Old Age
  8. Chapter Five: On Death
  9. Chapter Six: Our Souls
  10. Chapter Seven: Our Gods
  11. Chapter Eight: On Religion
  12. Chapter Nine: On a Different Second Advent
  13. Chapter Ten: On Religion and Morals
  14. Chapter Eleven: On Morality
  15. Chapter Twelve: On Race
  16. Chapter Thirteen: On Women
  17. Chapter Fourteen: On Sex
  18. Chapter Fifteen: On War
  19. Chapter Sixteen: On Vietnam
  20. Chapter Seventeen: On Politics
  21. Chapter Eighteen: On Capitalism and Communism
  22. Chapter Nineteen: On Art
  23. Chapter Twenty: On Science
  24. Chapter Twenty-One: On Education
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two: On the Insights of History
  26. About the Author
  27. Notes
  28. Index
  29. Copyright