On Death: The one certainty, contemplated

Philosophy and literature facing mortality — from the Stoics and Montaigne to Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich, the great meditations on the end.

In this collection

• Our Kind of a Man
• Let the Light Enter!
• What to do? . Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow
• Motives
• The Downy Woodpecker Poem
• Bitter-Sweet (Songs of Hearth and Altar)
• Answers
• The Old Burying-Ground
• The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science: A Discourse
• Historians and the Roman Empire
• Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
• I' Dolci Colli Ov' Io Lasciai me Stesso
• The Coming of the Huns
• The Lesson of Landscape
• The Better Land
• Energy
• Self-Conflict (I' Vo Pensando, E Nel Pensier M' Assale)
• The Physiology of Marriage, Volume II
• All collections