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Genre/Form: | Encyclopedia Popular Work Collected Work Literature Literary collections |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oxford book of death. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 (OCoLC)561802835 Online version: Oxford book of death. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 (OCoLC)609158235 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
D J Enright |
ISBN: | 0192141295 9780192141293 0192820133 9780192820136 |
OCLC Number: | 8763441 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. |
Description: | xiii, 351 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Definitions -- Views and attitudes -- The hour of death -- Suicide -- Mourning -- Graveyards and funerals -- Resurrections and immortalities -- Hereafters -- Revenants -- War, plague and persecution -- Love and death -- Children -- Animals -- Epitaphs, requiems and last words. |
Responsibility: | chosen and edited by D.J. Enright. |
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Abstract:
...superb collection ... moving, witty and thought-provoking.' Newsweek .
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