5 MEMORABLE GRAVEYARDS IN LITERATURE
I was delighted to write a post for the fabulous Off the Shelf website, a site created by editors, authors and others in the publishing industry to help readers discover wonderful books they might not know about.
I was surprised while doing the research to be reminded that there are a great many graveyards and cemeteries in literature. I pulled books from my shelves that held graveyards within their pages until they towered on the floor near my desk.
I also found it interesting that, in a few cases, humour trickled through a few graveyard scenes in a slightly macabre way, as in my first selection, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER.
I hope you enjoy 5 Memorable Graveyards in Literature
The Freshly Dug Grave
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain, two boys sneak out of bed and steal away into the midnight
air in search of devils in the graveyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Tom and Huck huddle behind a tree petrified as three men approach the
mound of a fresh grave. Hidden from view, they watch in horror as men
they recognize from town strike the grave with their shovels and begin
digging up a corpse. When the job is done, one of the grave robbers
demands extra payment. A fight ensues, a murder is committed, the weapon
being a headstone no less, and the only witnesses to the crime flee in
terror. All this in Twain’s inimitable voice.
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In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain, two boys sneak out of bed and steal away into the midnight
air in search of devils in the graveyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Tom and Huck huddle behind a tree petrified as three men approach the
mound of a fresh grave. Hidden from view, they watch in horror as men
they recognize from town strike the grave with their shovels and begin
digging up a corpse. When the job is done, one of the grave robbers
demands extra payment. A fight ensues, a murder is committed, the weapon
being a headstone no less, and the only witnesses to the crime flee in
terror. All this in Twain’s inimitable voice.
The Freshly Dug Grave
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain, two boys sneak out of bed and steal away into the midnight
air in search of devils in the graveyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Tom and Huck huddle behind a tree petrified as three men approach the
mound of a fresh grave. Hidden from view, they watch in horror as men
they recognize from town strike the grave with their shovels and begin
digging up a corpse. When the job is done, one of the grave robbers
demands extra payment. A fight ensues, a murder is committed, the weapon
being a headstone no less, and the only witnesses to the crime flee in
terror. All this in Twain’s inimitable voice.
- See more at: http://offtheshelf.com/2014/05/5-memorable-graveyards-in-literature/#sthash.9eMJzpPl.dpuf
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain, two boys sneak out of bed and steal away into the midnight
air in search of devils in the graveyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Tom and Huck huddle behind a tree petrified as three men approach the
mound of a fresh grave. Hidden from view, they watch in horror as men
they recognize from town strike the grave with their shovels and begin
digging up a corpse. When the job is done, one of the grave robbers
demands extra payment. A fight ensues, a murder is committed, the weapon
being a headstone no less, and the only witnesses to the crime flee in
terror. All this in Twain’s inimitable voice.
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