The Oxford Book of DeathDennis Joseph Enright Oxford University Press, 1987 - 351 psl. "Reading for this anthology," writes D.J. Enright, "I was moved to the thought that on no theme have writers shown themselves more lively." A survivor of Belsen voiced the same sentiment when, reflecting on the concentration camps, he wrote, "When in death we are in the midst of life." By turns poignant, tragic, comic, and inspiring, this anthology of thoughts about death ranges from ancient times to the present day--including almost 900 selections by poets, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and common people. Arranged under headings such as "Love," "War," "Last Words," and "Children," these selections show the varied, sometimes surprising, reactions of the dying and the bereaved to the final human act. |
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... friends , your brother's family in particular , in great prosperity . ' He said that he felt that satisfaction so sensibly , that when he was reading , a few days before , Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead , among all the excuses which are ...
... friends , your brother's family in particular , in great prosperity . ' He said that he felt that satisfaction so sensibly , that when he was reading , a few days before , Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead , among all the excuses which are ...
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... friends ; and there- fore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of this great catastrophe , which generally takes up and torments my thoughts as much as the catastrophe itself ; but I constantly draw the curtain across it ...
... friends ; and there- fore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of this great catastrophe , which generally takes up and torments my thoughts as much as the catastrophe itself ; but I constantly draw the curtain across it ...
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... friends were apprehended for an offence for which he might be hanged . ' JOHNSON : ' I should do what I could to bail him , and give him any other assistance ; but if he were once fairly hanged , I should not suffer . ' BOSWELL ...
... friends were apprehended for an offence for which he might be hanged . ' JOHNSON : ' I should do what I could to bail him , and give him any other assistance ; but if he were once fairly hanged , I should not suffer . ' BOSWELL ...
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