Death's Jest Book
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.Tags
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Recommended by Adam Phillips and gifted to my dear friend Kate with love Clare x (on inserted fly leaf from work of same name by Reginald Hill)
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- Death's Jest Book
- Original publication date
- 1850
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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