After the publication of Interpretations of Life, Durant returned to work on Fallen Leaves and would continue to do so until his death on November 7, 1981. Durant’s final years were inordinately prolific, as he not only continued his work on Fallen Leaves, but also found time to compose the book that would become Heroes of History, as well as to record his reading of this text in what would prove to be his final presentation of history as philosophy. Fallen Leaves,
