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...entire forests have been felled to produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep and slogs onward through the ages until he hits the day before yesterday. He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter...
...WILL DURANT...
...Treasury of the World's Great Letters (1940). Perhaps his most inventive idea was The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature, a version pepped up by the elimination of routine "begats" and archaic punctuation. S. and S. published numerous how-to manuals as well as Will Durant's exhaustive histories, and also took a lead in bringing the paperback into general circulation...
...Pursuit of the Mous, the Snaile, and the Clamm by Mary Durant. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 247 pages. Meredith. $4.95. Subtitled "a roving dictionary of the animal kingdom," this lighthearted book traces the names of animals back to abstruse origins. (The lowly burrowing gopher, for example, derives from gaufre, the French word for honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only...
...William Durant, D.LET., and Ariel Durant, D.LET., historians, authors of the ten-volume Story of Civilization...