Top ten funerals in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best funerals in literature.

One title on the list:

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

The centrepiece of this death-tending novel, with its title snatched from Hamlet, is naturally a funeral. Richard Kliman, one of the "agitators and affronters" who pursue narrator Nathan Zuckerman, describes the (real) funeral of sports writer George Plimpton, complete with oration by Norman Mailer.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue