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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... perhaps no one can say that he truly and clearly understands what constitutes it , we at once arrive at the discrimination of death . It is the cessation of the phenomena with which we are so especially familiar the phenomena of life ...
... perhaps no one can say that he truly and clearly understands what constitutes it , we at once arrive at the discrimination of death . It is the cessation of the phenomena with which we are so especially familiar the phenomena of life ...
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... perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence , perhaps with the petty anxieties of self - assertion . What was Mr Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clue to . He held himself to be , with some private scholarly reservations , a ...
... perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence , perhaps with the petty anxieties of self - assertion . What was Mr Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clue to . He held himself to be , with some private scholarly reservations , a ...
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... perhaps to anthologize on this subject does require a heart of stone . The fear of death has no meaning to a child ; hence it is that he will play with the dreadful word and use it as a threat against a playmate : ' If you do that again ...
... perhaps to anthologize on this subject does require a heart of stone . The fear of death has no meaning to a child ; hence it is that he will play with the dreadful word and use it as a threat against a playmate : ' If you do that again ...
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| Pavadinimas | The Oxford Book of Death Oxford paperbacks |
| Redaktorius | Dennis Joseph Enright |
| Sudarė | Dennis Joseph Enright |
| Leidimas | pakartotinai išspausdintas |
| Leidėjas | Oxford University Press, 1987 |
| Originalas iš | Virdžinijos universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 31 liepos 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192820133, 9780192820136 |
| Ilgis | 351 psl. |
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