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7 best short stories - Death

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In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. Literature has also been a tool for speaking and reflecting on the great mystery of life.

Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

- The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

- A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy De Maupassant

- The Sisters by James Joyce

- The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

- Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence

- Laura by Saki

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



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