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While on vacation with Mihail, Ragin spent his hours laying on the sofa contemplating life and death. Although a life span is the longest thing a person will experience, he felt that once death took place, one simply evaporated and left no trace in the universe. He found no point in living if the life would be forgotten once gone.
The title is a reference to W. Somerset Maugham's retelling of an ancient Mesopotamian tale [2] which appears as an epigraph for the novel:. There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I ...
Four Steps to Death is a 2005 historical novel by John Wilson. It is about the horrors and tragedies of the Battle of Stalingrad . The plot revolves around the lives of various characters involved in the battle on both sides of the conflict and shows how horrible war can be.
This book consumed my every thought for a week straight and became one of my book club’s favorite discussions of the year. Some of Westover's stories will horrify, others are heart-wrenching and ...
Critical reception was positive. [3] [4] Karl Ove Knausgård praised the book, stating that the work has "true honesty in an unexpected place". [5]The work has also received praise from The Observer and The Daily Telegraph, the latter of which printed Nicholas Blincoe calling it "an elegant series of meditations at the closing of a long career".
The thrill of raw power, the brutal ecstasy of life on the edge. “It was,” said Nick, “the worst, best experience of my life.” But the boy’s death haunts him, mired in the swamp of moral confusion and contradiction so familiar to returning veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. [1] The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death. [2]
Scholars and critics have identified many themes of The Lord of the Rings, a major fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, including a reversed quest, the struggle of good and evil, death and immortality, fate and free will, the danger of power, and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figures, for prophet, priest, and king, as well as elements like hope and ...