An edition of The grim reader (1997)

The grim reader

writings on death, dying, and living on

1st Anchor Books ed.
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An edition of The grim reader (1997)

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Pages
431

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The grim reader: writings on death, dying, and living on
1997, Anchor Books/Doubleday
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Table of Contents

On transience / Sigmund Freud
On his mortality / Bertolt Brecht
To philosophize is to learn to die / Michel de Montaigne
Death / Thomas Nagel
The horses of Achilles / C.P. Cavafy
Speak, memory / Vladimir Nabokov
Aubade / Philip Larkin
Departures / Paul Zweig
Sonnet / John Keats
With open eyes / Marguerite Yourcenar
On the death of David Hume / Adam Smith
On the fear of death / William Hazlitt
Fear of death / John Ashbery
Aes triplex / Robert Louis Stevenson
from Garbage / A.R. Ammons
On old age / Samuel Clemens
Swan song / Luis Buũel
Lovely / Kingsley Amis
The old fools / Philip Larkin
Portrait of an invisible man / Paul Auster
Sonnet to my father / Donald Justice
He died in his seventy-fourth year... / Colette
True night / Alvin Feinman
Poems and a letter / Emily Dickinson
The death of Marilyn Monroe / Sharon Olds
Religio medici / Sir Thomas Browne
An upward look / James Merrill
A very easy death / Simone de Beauvoir
A woman's suicide for a man's death / Nicole Loraux
Mother / Grace Paley
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
Patrimony / Philip Roth
The child-bearers / Anne Sexton
My mother's death / Elizabeth Rosen
On epic death / Jasper Griffin
Gallipoli / Alan Moorehead
The plague in Florence / Giovanni Boccaccio
The plague in London / Samuel Pepys
October 1944 / Primo Levi
Immersion in death / Robert Jay Lifton
Mortal embrace / Emmanuel Dreuilhe
Terminal / Thom Gunn
3275 / Paul Monette
A very active dead / Emily Vermeule
Death, grief, and mourning in contemporary Britain / Geoffrey Gorer
I desperately needed to see my son / Sheila Awooner-Renner
On the cremation of his mother / George Bernard Shaw
Remains / Richard Selzer
The modern cemetery / Philippe Ariés
The American way of death / Jessica Mitford
Photographing the dead / Rudolf Schãfer
Camera Lucida / Roland Barthes
The mechanization of death / Siegfried Giedion
The dangerous dead / Erwin Panofsky
The second-best bed / E.A.J. Honigmann
From Madrid to purgatory / Carlos M.N. Eire
How the poor die / George Orwell
The hospice alternative / Anne Munley
Death management / Joseph A. Califano
The burdens of aggressive medical treatment / Timothy Quill
Life's dominion / Ronald Dworkin
"Euthanasia" in Germany / Michael Burleigh
Malone dies / Samuel Beckett
The beginning of the (living) end / Stanley Elkin
The dead parrot / Monty Python
Graveside laughter / Milan Kundera
Hamlet: the graveyard / William Shakespeare

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8/03548
Library of Congress
PN6071.D4 G75 1997

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Pagination
xvi, 431 p. ;
Number of pages
431

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24764531M
ISBN 10
0385485271
ISBN 13
9780385485272
LCCN
96048586
OCLC/WorldCat
35968914

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