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Escape from Evil

by Ernest Becker · 1975

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world.

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"A profound, nourishing book...absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times." —Anais Nin

"An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light." —Newsweek

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short · 188 pages

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