Final Chapters
How Famous Authors Died
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Narrado por:
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Daniel Henning
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De:
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Jim Bernhard
Sobre este áudio
Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than 100 writers' encounters with death - and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.
Francis Bacon wrote, "It is as natural to die as to be born," while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, "And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone."
Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Moliere collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.
Edgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else's clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas really die of 18 straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams?
If these authors have lessons for us, the best may be that of Marcus Aurelius: "Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back."
©2015 Jim Bernhard (P)2021 Tantor