The Dance of Death Fiction_Gift_Guide our prejudices

our prejudices

- Dimensions: 5" x 8-1/4"

at once sweeping and intimate

In this “darkly humorous” (Harper’s Bazaar) memoir-in-essays

The Dance of Death Fiction_Gift_Guide our prejudicesAn invaluable new reproduction of Holbeins woodcuts of The Dance of Death One of Hans Holbeins first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride. Each image is packed with drama, wit, and horror, as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the early sixteenth century, The Dance of Death