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Epitaphs
to Remember: Remarkable Inscriptions from New England Gravestones
by Janet Greene, Thomas C. Mann, George Daly (Illustrator)
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Paperback:
120
pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.47 x 8.43 x
5.46 |
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Publisher:
Alan C. Hood & Company (December 1993) |
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ISBN:
0911469109 |
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book
description
In earlier times, people felt the need to leave a permanent record of
who they were and what they stood for. Nowadays people tend to keep
quiet about those things, at least in their final resting place. But
many have found a new fascination in wandering about an old graveyard.
They are often touched and moved by what they read there. Those people
of former generations have much to say to us, although with great economy
of woods because each letter had to be chiseled in stone with hand tools.
This classic collection of epitaphs has been delighting readers since
its original publication in 1962 as Over Their Dead Bodies. |
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editorial
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Bloomsbury Review, July/August 1995
This collection includes the famous and obscure; the author, who has
a fine taste for irony and the macabre, has strung them together with
a historical commentary that sheds light on why people used to spill
their guts, so to speak, in the cemetery. A fun and informative volume.
Small Press Magazine, Spring 1994
This is the paperback reissue of a book...originally titled OVER
THEIR DEAD BODIES. Before going out-of-print, it had sold over 40,000
copies. It is easy to see why this collection of gravestone epitaphs,
covering the years from the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth,
is a precis of New England history during this period. |
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