Saddest deaths in literature

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Originally Posted by V.Jayalakshmi

Dear Members,
I think of two books wherein, I feel the saddest deaths are portrayed.One is that of Sydny Carton in Charles Dicken's "A Tale Of Two Cities".Here the death is not shown in actuality but portrayed by the journey that Sydny Carton does in carriage that will take him to the Guilletine.He does this for saving his lover's husband.( It was only Carton who loved her and not she).
The next one is that of the brother and sister combination of Maggie and Tom in George Elliot's novel "the Mill On The Floss".The river rises here to take away these two.

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I agree, great choices.

Falstaff's death in Henry V. The speech by Mistress Quickly about it is very moving. I was reminded of it as I have just watched Judi Dench acting it in Henry V on tv. Wonderful stuff.

For me, there is only one response: Sydney Carton's death in A Tale of Two Cities... It is the only book that has ever made me cry.