Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal FearReaders of Edgar Allan Poe's tales--just think of The Premature Burial--may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead. With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. "A weird and wonderful little tome."--Salon.com "Bondeson weaves a strange disturbing, and weirdly enthralling tale. Cremation never sounded so good."--Lingua Franca "A most useful and entertaining book....Deserves a place on every bedside table in America."--Patrick McGrath, author of Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution |
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Procura do Utilizador - brittaniethekid - LibraryThingThis is a little more academically driven than I wanted - I expected a book more like Mary Roach's books on death - but it was still very interesting, thoroughly researched, and well written. I could ... Ler crítica na íntegra
BURIED ALIVE: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
Procura do Utilizador - KirkusGrave matters are treated with wit and erudition in this study of premature burial throughout Western history, from physician Bondeson (The London Monster, 2000, etc.).When one 18th-century French ... Ler crítica na íntegra
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear Jan Bondeson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 16 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Página 9 - Worm — these things, with the thoughts of the air and grass above, with memory of dear friends who would fly to save us if but informed of our fate, and with consciousness that of this fate they can never be informed — that our hopeless portion is that of the really dead...
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Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear |
| Autor | Jan Bondeson |
| Edição | ilustrada, reimpressão |
| Editora | W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 |
| ISBN | 039332222X, 9780393322224 |
| Número de páginas | 320 páginas |
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