Comic Epitaphs from the Very Best Old Graveyard
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Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Henry R. Martin |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2009-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781104838997 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Henry R. Martin |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781258850258 |
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
Author | : Kathleen E. Miller |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781402729690 |
Laugh in the face of death! That’s what this bold, brash, and often irreverent collection of epitaphs encourages readers to do. It offers more than just the deceased’s name and dates of birth and death, plus a touching phrase in memorial. Instead, every fascinating quote presents an unexpectedly cheeky perspective on the tragic, like this one from Uniontown, New Jersey: "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake; stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake.” Some come from the gravestones of the famous: Bette Davis’s proudly notes that "she did it the hard way.” Each thought-provoking line makes an indelible contribution to our folklore.
Author | : Karl Siegfried Guthke |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America. Various epitaphic "sub-cultures" are analyzed, among them the time-honored custom of composing one's own tomb inscription as well as the ancient and modern convention of honoring animals with epitaphs. It also examines epitaph-collecting, epitaph "lies," humorous epitaphs, and the change in social and religious attitudes toward suicides. The book concludes with a cultural and intellectual history of epitaphs. An epilogue addresses the question of the supposed disappearance of epitaph culture at the present time.
Author | : Theodore Cronyn |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Bernardston (Mass.) |
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Author | : William Andrews |
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Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Epitaphs |
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Author | : Louis S. Schafer |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780806972749 |
An amazing, amusing collection of musty, dusty old epitaphs.
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Sepulchral monuments |
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Author | : Arthur Wentworth Eaton |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2019-06-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781074379001 |
This collection comprises an assortment of quaint and funny epitaphs selected from the many thousands of such from cemeteries all over the world. A unique book.Samples: From an Irish graveyard: "Here lies the body of John Smith.Had he lived till he got ashore, he would have been buried here."From an old churchyard in Plymouth, England: "Here lies the body ofThomas Vernon, The only surviving son of Admiral Vernon."From St. Philip's Churchyard, Birmingham, England: "Died on the 14th inst., Henry Wilkins Glyn, aged 3 days and 7 hours, After a long and painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, this youthful martyr departed to his rest."From a graveyard in Salisbury, England: "Here lies me and my three daughters, Brought here by using seidlitz waters. If we had stuck to Epsom salts, We wouldn't have been in these here vaults." From Portland, Oregon: "Beneath this stone our baby lies, It neither cries nor hollers, It lived but one and twenty days And cost us forty dollars."From a London churchyard: "Here lies William Smith, And what is somewhat rarish, He was born, bred and Hanged in this parish.In Nova Scotia: "A bird, a man, a loaded gun, No bird, dead man. Thy will be