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How to Read a Graveyard - The Guardian presents The 10 best ... famous graves
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William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Bette Davis, John Keats, Sylvia Plath and, of course, Oscar Wilde whose grave in Paris is always covered with red lipstick kisses. The memorial - a naked birdman - was unveiled in 1914, but it had to be covered up because of complaints about the figure’s exposed genitals. Oscar Wilde’s grave on the Père Lachaise is a tourist attraction, as well as Jim Morrison’s grave nearby.
If you walk over the famous graveyards in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, and anywhere else in the world, it’s a walk through history. You meet people you most probably never had the chance to meet in real life, but of whom you read and heard a lot. “How to Read a Graveyard” is the title of Peter Stanford’s new book which will be published by Bloomsbury on 28 March 2013. On this occasion The Guardian shows a picture gallery of: