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Death in literature

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62 works

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    Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

    | Date: 2017
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    Putting Falstaff to rest : "tabulating" the facts / R.F. Fleissner.

    Fleissner, R. F. | Date: 1983
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    The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature / Karl S. Guthke.

    Guthke, Karl Siegfried, 1933- | Date: 1999
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    Wounding and death in the Iliad : Homeric techniques of description / Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich ; translated by Gabriele Wright and Peter Jones ; preface by Peter Jones ; appendix by K.B. Saunders.

    Friedrich, Wolf-Hartmut. | Date: 2003
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    The dance of death in painting and in print / by T. Tindall Wildridge.

    Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall) | Date: 1887
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Death in art
Attitude to Death
Death
Literature
Ancient
History, 19th Century
England
Medicine in Literature
United Kingdom
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