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The hour of our death

Author: Philippe Ariès
Publisher: New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1981.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Ariès, Philippe.
Hour of our death.
New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1981
(OCoLC)557659716
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Philippe Ariès
ISBN: 0394410742 9780394410746
OCLC Number: 6278130
Language Note: Translation of L'homme devant la mort.
Notes: Translation of L'homme devant la mort.
Description: xvii, 651 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS --
Sleepers of stone --
The tame death --
Place of burial --
The death of self --
The hour of death: the final reckoning --
Guarantees of eternity --
Tombs and epitaphs --
Death untamed --
Remote and imminent death --
The turning of the tide --
The vanities --
The dead body --
The living dead --
The death of the other --
The age of the beautiful death --
The visit to the cemetery --
The invisible death --
Death denied --
Five variations on four themes.
Other Titles: Homme devant la mort.
Responsibility: Philippe Ariès ; translated from the French by Helen Weaver.

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