Urn Burial

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First published as a Pearl (NDP1188) by New Directions in 2010.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Design by Erik Rieselbach

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.

[Hydriotaphia]

Urn burial / Sir Thomas Browne ; introduction by W. G. Sebald.

p. cm.

“A New Directions Pearl.”

eISBN 978-0-8112-2154-2

1. Urn burial. 2. Norfolk (England)—Antiquities. 3. Gardening—Early works to 1800. 4. Cyrus, King of Persia, d. 529 B.C.

I. Title.

PR3327.A65 2010

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2010021395

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