The Quick or the Dead? A Study

The Quick or the Dead? A Study by Amelie Rives is a book that explores the concept of life and death. The author delves into the question of what it means to be alive and what happens after we die. She examines various religious and philosophical beliefs about the afterlife, including reincarnation, heaven and hell, and the idea of eternal rest.Rives also looks at the ways in which people try to cheat death, such as through technology and medicine. She considers the ethical implications of these efforts and asks whether they are ultimately futile. In addition, the book explores the role of death in art and literature, as well as its impact on human psychology and behavior.Throughout the book, Rives draws on a wide range of sources, including scientific research, religious texts, and literary works. She presents her ideas in a clear and engaging style, making the book accessible to a general audience. Overall, The Quick or the Dead? is a thought-provoking exploration of one of life's most fundamental questions.1888. Poet and writer Amelie Rives (pseudonym of Princess Amelie (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy) became an immediate literary sensation when she published the passionate, melodramatic novel, The Quick or the Dead? The book begins: There was a soughing rain asweep that night, with no wind to drive it, yet it ceased and fell, sighed and was hushed incessantly, as by some changing gale. Barbara was a good deal unnerved by the lanternless drive from the station. The shelving road, seamed with abrupt gullies, lay through murk fields and stony hollows, that she well remembered; in the glimpsing lightning she saw scurrying trees against the suave autumn sky, like etchings on bluish paper; the dry, white-brown grasses swirled about the horses' feet in that windless rain; and after what thunderous fashion those horses pounded stableward! They hurled through narrow gateways like stones from a catapult, rushed past ragged trees whose boles seemed leaping to meet them, spun over large stones as through they had been mere fallen leaves.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.