Exit Lines: Last Words of the Famous and Infamous

by Brian O'Kill

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582892236
• ISBN13: 9780582892231
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"I had rather live, but I am not afraid to die" Disraeli

This work is slightly different from the usual ' last lines' work. It actually tells the story of the person uttering the last lines, sets the context. It does this briefly. My problem with the work is that it is a bit too English- centered and would have been far more interesting had it broadened its scope. In this book people die in alphabetical order. A few brief examples of last words" Ibsen "On the contrary" Stonewall Jackson "Let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees" Poe "Lord help my poor soul. Rabelais "Bring down the curtain the farce is over." or"I am going to seek a great perhaps." Robert Falcon Scott "For God's sake look after our people" Tycho Brahe " Let me not seem to have lived in vain." Chekhov "It is some time since I drank champagne" Disraeli " I had rather live, but I am not afraid to die" Newton "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."