The Book of Eulogies

by Phyllis Theroux

Book Overview

This invaluable anthology is the first and only collection dedicated to the art of the eulogy. For the past several years, Phyllis Theroux has collected the most eloquent and moving writing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684822512
• ISBN13: 9780684822518
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A sensible anthology

A collection of eulogies, as the title implies, along with some letters and writings on death and grief. It is a curious fact that, as shown here, the most unlikely people can be eloquent in the face of death. Many of the eulogies here quoted are beautiful and moving not for the sake of the dead but for the power of the language used to carry them back to the hearers' and readers' memories. Especially noteworthy are Atatürk's memorial to soldiers ~ both Allies and Central Powers ~ who died at Gallipoli in W.W.I, Richard Selzer on his mother, Neru on Ghandi ~ more than can be listed. Not at all the morbid book one might think this would be; it is, in fact, more a celebration of the possibilities of life than a mourning about death.

Excellent perspective on the meaning of our life on earth

You cannot read this book without getting a sense of the importance of each soul and the real value in our interactions with other people. For it is how others remember us that matters, and how we touch each others lives that lasts. It is a very moving collection.