The grim reader
Subtitle: writings on death, dying, and living on
By: edited by Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780385485272
Subjects: Grief; Death; Bereavement; Literary collections
Table of contents: title: On transience / Sigmund Freud; title: On his mortality / Bertolt Brecht; title: To philosophize is to learn to die / Michel de Montaigne; title: Death / Thomas Nagel; title: The horses of Achilles / C.P. Cavafy; title: Speak, memory / Vladimir Nabokov; title: Aubade / Philip Larkin; title: Departures / Paul Zweig; title: Sonnet / John Keats; title: With open eyes / Marguerite Yourcenar; title: On the death of David Hume / Adam Smith; title: On the fear of death / William Hazlitt; title: Fear of death / John Ashbery; title: Aes triplex / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: from Garbage / A.R. Ammons; title: On old age / Samuel Clemens; title: Swan song / Luis Buũel; title: Lovely / Kingsley Amis; title: The old fools / Philip Larkin; title: Portrait of an invisible man / Paul Auster; title: Sonnet to my father / Donald Justice; title: He died in his seventy-fourth year... / Colette; title: True night / Alvin Feinman; title: Poems and a letter / Emily Dickinson; title: The death of Marilyn Monroe / Sharon Olds; title: Religio medici / Sir Thomas Browne; title: An upward look / James Merrill; title: A very easy death / Simone de Beauvoir; title: A woman's suicide for a man's death / Nicole Loraux; title: Mother / Grace Paley; title: Notes of a native son / James Baldwin; title: Patrimony / Philip Roth; title: The child-bearers / Anne Sexton; title: My mother's death / Elizabeth Rosen; title: On epic death / Jasper Griffin; title: Gallipoli / Alan Moorehead; title: The plague in Florence / Giovanni Boccaccio; title: The plague in London / Samuel Pepys; title: October 1944 / Primo Levi; title: Immersion in death / Robert Jay Lifton; title: Mortal embrace / Emmanuel Dreuilhe; title: Terminal / Thom Gunn; title: 3275 / Paul Monette; title: A very active dead / Emily Vermeule; title: Death, grief, and mourning in contemporary Britain / Geoffrey Gorer; title: I desperately needed to see my son / Sheila Awooner-Renner; title: On the cremation of his mother / George Bernard Shaw; title: Remains / Richard Selzer; title: The modern cemetery / Philippe Ariés; title: The American way of death / Jessica Mitford; title: Photographing the dead / Rudolf Schãfer; title: Camera Lucida / Roland Barthes; title: The mechanization of death / Siegfried Giedion; title: The dangerous dead / Erwin Panofsky; title: The second-best bed / E.A.J. Honigmann; title: From Madrid to purgatory / Carlos M.N. Eire; title: How the poor die / George Orwell; title: The hospice alternative / Anne Munley; title: Death management / Joseph A. Califano; title: The burdens of aggressive medical treatment / Timothy Quill; title: Life's dominion / Ronald Dworkin; title: "Euthanasia" in Germany / Michael Burleigh; title: Malone dies / Samuel Beckett; title: The beginning of the (living) end / Stanley Elkin; title: The dead parrot / Monty Python; title: Graveside laughter / Milan Kundera; title: Hamlet: the graveyard / William Shakespeare