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BROWNING / EVELYN HOPEEVELYN HOPE (from Dramatis personae') Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead... you will wake, & remember, & understand... Date: First published: 1855
Rob Roy by Walter Scott. Diana Vernon and Frank: the glove scene. Date: First published: 1818
A page from Opal's precocious childhood diary which backs her claim to be a French princess who had emigrated to the U.S. : though truly extraordinary, not all believed it. Date: 1920
MARINER, HEARS VOICESThe Mariner slumped on deck amongst the bodies of his dead shipmates slowly awakens from his trance to hear the voices of two spirits Date: First published: 1798
MARINER, DEADMEN ON SHIPThe Mariner is forced to confront the accusing eyes of his dead shipmates: Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die Date: First published: 1798
LIFE-IN-DEATH WINSLife-in-Death dices with Death himself to decide the fate of the sailors; Life-in-Death wins the Mariner alone The game is done! I've won, I've won! Date: First published: 1798
Graham wakes after sleeping for two centuries, Date: First published 1899
The last sacrifice of the women of the Otomie. Date: First published: 1893
POE/POEM/THE RAVEN/C19TH"Sorrow for the lost Lenore"; the man contemplates his lost love. Date: First published: 1845
GRAY/ELEGY/CHURCHYARDThe funeral: "The next with dirges due in sad array, slow thro the church-way path we saw him borne." Date: First published: 1751
SCROOGE WITH SPIRITScrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows him his own dead body and grave. Date: First published: 1843
LIGEIA "I would call aloud upon her name"; the narrator calls for his dead wife. Date: First published: 1838
POE/TALES/WILL WILSONWILLIAM WILSON "In my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."
VICAR WAKEFIELD/RACKHAMBill sings the Elegy on the death of a mad dog, accompanied by the guitar. Date: First published: 1766
Buck's encounter with a moose. Date: First published: 1903
Buck in his own dreams: "These sounds & sights of another world would make the hair to rise." Date: First published: 1903
Buck being attacked: "& Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming
LORNA DOONE/BLACKMOREJohn Ridd and Lorna are called before Ensor Doone, who says Fools you are - be fools for ever, before he dies later. Date: First published: 1869
BURNING HERETICS BOOKSWhen church reformers Martin Bucer and Phagius are put to death, their heretical books are burnt along with their bodies. Date: 1551
JOHN LYDGATE/VERTUEJOHN LYDGATE English poet and Benedictine monk, with a Dance of Death Date: 1370? - 1450?
EDOUARD EUGENE BRANLY (1844 - 1940), French engineer who developed wireless telegraphy. Date: 1923
WORLD OF LIVING DEADWORLD OF THE LIVING DEAD (Ed. Earl Repp) The scientists explore the subterranean world Date: 1932
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND The castaways Date: 1874
ADVENTURE MACHINESCITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines... Date: 1930
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Marooned Date: 1874THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Marooned... Date: 1874
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Ayrton fights the pirates Date: 1874
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND Top saved from the dugong Date: 1874
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND The last hope Date: 1874
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND The discovery of the chest Date: 1874
PALMERSTON/BROADLANDSHENRY JOHN TEMPLE THIRD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON English MP's study at Broadlands, Hampshire, at the time of his death Date: 1784 - 1865
Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - ChairSir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Scottish novelist's empty chair at Abbotsford, after his death Date:
BOOKS/SPYRI/HEIDIA large gathering of Swiss people, presumably Heidi's grandparents and other relatives, outside a typical Swiss building. Date: First published: 1881
TREASURE ISLAND/ISRAELThe death of Israel Hands: "the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds, & plunged head first into the water." Date: First published: 1883
TREASURE ISLE/TOM MORGANLong John Silver questions Tom Morgan: "Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?". Date: First published: 1883
Yorick discusses France with the Count at Versailles. Date: First published: 1768
GULLIVER IN LAPUTAHe meets the Governor of the Island of Sorcerers, where the servants are dead spirits : great men of the past are summoned and speak with him. Date: First published: 1726
VISIONS ON GLUBBDUBRIBGULLIVER ON GLUBBDUBRIB On the Island of Sorcerers, the Magicians are served by spirits called from the dead. Great men of the past are summoned to speak with him. Date: First published: 1726
CRUSOE & DEAD PARRROTRobinson Crusoe shoots a parrot which he and Friday eat for supper. Date: First published: 1719
CRUSOE REVISITS ISLANDAfter his wife's death, Crusoe revisits the island & meets the Spaniard whose life he saved. Date: First published: 1719
Dante - Virgil - PurgatoryDante & Virgil encounter the shadowy forms, that seem'd dead & dead again of souls in Purgatorio. Date: First published: 1307-21?
DANTE/DEAD LOVERSDead lovers. Date: First published: 1307-21?
DAVID COPPERFIELD/PHIZDavid tells Mrs Steerforth and Rosa Dartle that Steerforth is dead Date: First published: 1849-50
Artificial Heart Books Fantasy Fiction Humanartificial, heart, books, fantasy, fiction, human, engineering, 1939, illustration, world, without, death, polton, cross, Fantasy, Scifi, Sci, Fi, Science, Fiction, Future, Futuristic, Front, Cover
LITTLE WOMEN/DEAD CANARYBeth sobs over the dead canary. Date: First published: 1868
MARINER, ROTTING SEAThe Mariner, alone on ship amongst the dead bodies of his companions, gazes upon the rotting sea in agony Date: First published: 1798
LONGFELLOW/EXCELSIOREXCELSIOR "There in the twilight cold and grey Lifeless, but beautiful he lay...". Date: First published: c.1880
The First Men in the Moon, H. G. WellsTHE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON Dr Cavor tries to communicate with the Selenites Date: 1900
BUNYAN/GIANT'S DEATHThe death of Giant Despair. Date: First published: 1678
