The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides:Dead Letters

Author: Gary Lachman

TOP TEN SUICIDES

‘So many, I had not thought death had undone so many.’’ T.S.Eliot’s The Wasteland

1.Empedocles –jumping into a volcano
2. Thomas Chatterton –poison
3. Heinrich von Kleist -gunshot
4 Gerard de Nerval –hanging
5. Jack London –morphine overdose
6.Virginia Woolf –drowning
7. Hemingway –gunshot
8. Sylvia Plath –gassing
9. Anne Sexton- gassed herself into her car 10.Yukio Mishima –hari kari

Best suicide novels
The Possessed-Dostoevsky
The Sorrows of Werther- Goethe

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