Encyclopedia of Famous Suicides

by David Lester

Overview

This extraordinary book presents the details of 334 famous people who committed suicides including: Mark Antony (13), Alexander Hamilton (57), Ernest Hemingway (62), Lucretia (87), Sylvia Plath (107), Elvis Presley (108), Anne Sexton (120), Vincent Van Gogh (133) and Virginia Woolf (139).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560724131
Publisher:	Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/28/1997
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Includes the name, date and place of birth and death, and a short description of the life of 334 famous suicides throughout history<-- >from Socrates, Pontius Pilate, and Pyramis and Thisbe to Virginia Woolf, Jan Masaryk, Yukiko Okada, and Elizabeth Stanton. It's not as morbid or gratuitous as it sounds<-->the writing is concise, interesting and subtly disapproving. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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