From the Book - First Metropolitan paperback edition.
Introduction: after paradise
1. The voice in the whirlwind: the Book of Job and the Book of Psalms
2. Waiting for the Messiah: Paul's Epistles
3. Cicero's tears: letters on the death of his daughter
4. Facing the barbarians: Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
5. The consolations of philosophy: Boethius and Dante
6. The painting of time: El Greco's The burial of the Count of Orgaz
7 The body's wisdom: Michel de Montaigne's last essays
8. The unsent letter: David Hume's My Own Life
9. The consolations of history: Condorcet's A sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind
10. The heart of a heartless world: Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto
11. War and consolation: Abraham Lincoln's second Inaugural Address
12. Songs on the death of children: Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder
13. The calling: Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic
14. The consolations of witness: Anna Akhmatova, Primo, Levi, and Miklos Radnoti
15. To live outside grace: Albert Camus's The Plague
16. Living in truth: Vaclav Havel's Letters to Olga
17. The good death: Cicely Saunders and the hospice
