In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality

has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry. Literature has also been a tool for speaking and reflecting on the great mystery of life.

Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

• The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
• A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy De Maupassant
• The Sisters by James Joyce
• The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
• Laura by Saki

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!