The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married ...
Palmer: (1817-1904). Brevet Maj. Charles E. Pease (1838-1886) C Civil War commander,. moved beyond cameos and traveled frequently to New York City, where he mounted a major show of 12 sculptures for the National Academy of Art in 1856.
You can't take it with you - or can you?
Sancti Stones: Parish Memorials of Wiveliscombe, Somerset : a Millennium Survey of Surviving Inscriptions in the Churches and Churchyards of...
The Victorian Celebration of Death: the Architect-ure and Planning of the 19th Century Necropolis
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"Jewish ritual for preparing the body for burial"--Cover.
The kinematic dynamo theory, especially the fast dynamo treated in this volume, is somewhat simpler but still it presents formidable analytical problems related to chaotic dynamics, for example.
"This Norton Critical Edition of As I Lay Dying, second edition, features William Faulkner's experimental Southern novel with editorial annotations.
While the majority of the barrows were only visible from relatively close by, specific monuments took up a dominating position, cresting the horizon, and they were visible from much further away.