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Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by angloamerican writer christopher hitchens, comprising seven essays which first appeared in vanity fair concerning his struggle with esophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour and which killed him in december 2011. Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 17711832. Infant mortality refers to the incidence of deaths in infants under 1 year old. The story, centered around the impressionable maria and miranda, daughters of a puritanical southern patriarch, describes how one of. Old mortality, novel by sir walter scott, published in 1816 and a masterpiece in the genre of historical romance.
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