The Outline of History: The Whole Story of Man by H.G. Wells Two Volume Set 1961 Hardcover Book Club Edition with Maps & Illustrations

The Outline of History: The Whole Story of Man by H.G. Wells Two Volume Set 1961 Hardcover Book Club Edition with Maps & Illustrations

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, corners bumped/rubbed, age appropriate toning to interior pages, previous owners name is inside the front cover, some page corners are folded)

This two-volume, book club edition set was revised and updated in 1961 by Raymond Postgate to bring the work up-to-date, to include World War II.

—The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells chronicling the history of the world from the origin of the Earth to the First World War.

H.G. Wells is remembered today as the science fiction writer who created "The War of The Worlds." Performed as a radio play, it struck panic in a large population of American people in 1938. But Wells was a very prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. This featured two-volume work might, in fact, be the most important work available for today's global population, who are panic struck about climate change, worldwide political movements, and other changes taking place that seem out of our control. In about 1920, he published "The Outline of History," that became at once very popular. It was translated into numerous languages and sold more than 2 million copies world-wide. Wells' purpose was to tell, "truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind, so far as it is known today." He produced several revisions during his lifetime to keep it current. He worked to make sure it was written plainly for the general reader. The last revision in his lifetime was in 1937.

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