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The Grim Reader
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The best classic and contemporary writing on mortality--from Montaigne to Monty Python--to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind.The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning--these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the…
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- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0385485271
- ISBN-13: 9780385485272
- Format: 15.7 x 22.1 x 2.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The best classic and contemporary writing on mortality--from Montaigne to Monty Python--to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind.The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning--these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery. A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including: Vladimir Nabokov - John Ashbery - Samuel Beckett
Adam Smith - Simone de Beauvoir - Grace Paley
Giovanni Boccaccio - Bertolt Brecht - Roland Barthes
James Baldwin - Primo Levi - Anne Sexton
Luis Buñuel - Paul Monette - Jessica Mitford - Stanley Elkin
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- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0385485271
- ISBN-13: 9780385485272
- Format: 15.7 x 22.1 x 2.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The best classic and contemporary writing on mortality--from Montaigne to Monty Python--to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind.
The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning--these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery. A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including: Vladimir Nabokov - John Ashbery - Samuel Beckett
Adam Smith - Simone de Beauvoir - Grace Paley
Giovanni Boccaccio - Bertolt Brecht - Roland Barthes
James Baldwin - Primo Levi - Anne Sexton
Luis Buñuel - Paul Monette - Jessica Mitford - Stanley Elkin
The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning--these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery. A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including: Vladimir Nabokov - John Ashbery - Samuel Beckett
Adam Smith - Simone de Beauvoir - Grace Paley
Giovanni Boccaccio - Bertolt Brecht - Roland Barthes
James Baldwin - Primo Levi - Anne Sexton
Luis Buñuel - Paul Monette - Jessica Mitford - Stanley Elkin
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