Hardcover Nonfiction

by Joshua Loth Liebman · Simon & Schuster

by John Kieran · Doubleday

by Betty MacDonald · Lippincott

by Philip Wylie · Rinehart & Company

by Pierre Lecomte du Nouy · Longmans, Green

by Arnold Toynbee · Oxford University Press

Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement. Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee's study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion. Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose."

by Paul M. Angle · Rutgers University Press

by Katherine Tupper Marshall · People's Book Club

by Leone Rutledge Carroll · M. Barrows

by Robert Allen · Vanguard Press

by James Burnham · John Day

by Frances Perkins · Viking Press

by Mary Maguire Colum · Macmillan

by Melvin Adams Hall · Scribner

by Louis Francis Budenz · McGraw-Hill

by John R. Deane · Viking Press