- Death, Heroes, Myth, Psychological aspects
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Spare, character-led, earnest and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Free Press Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster, Limited, Collier Macmillan
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780786176861
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First sentence
“The first thing we have to do with heroism is to lay bare its underside, show what gives human heroics its specific nature and impetus.”
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