The Outline of History I-II.

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Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. Wells - Revised and Brought up to the end of the Second World War by Raymond Postgate - With Maps and Plans by J. F. Horrabin - 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 that first appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published as a single volume in 1920. It sold more than two million copies, was translated into many languages, and had a considerable impact on the teaching of history in institutions of higher education. Wells modelled the Outline on the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot..