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Immortalism

Here are entered works on the concept of living indefinitely in the flesh. For works on the concept of the survival of the soul after death see Immortality.

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• Aging
• Death -- Religious aspects
• Longevity

• Immortality

• Immortalism -- Fiction
• Cryonics

• Prolongation of life span

• Ayesha: The Return of She, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• Flaxius: Leaves From the Life of an Immortal (London: Philip Wellby, 1902), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melmoth the Wanderer (new edition, with memoir and bibliography, 3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1892), by Charles Robert Maturin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander, by Frank R. Stockton (Gutenberg text)
• The Black Flame (originally published 1939), by Stanley G. Weinbaum (HTML in the UK; NO US ACCESS)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
  • multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Phantom Ship, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893), by Lew Wallace (illustrated HTML at hiwaay.net)
• The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1921), by Lew Wallace
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell, by Lew Wallace
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• She and Allan, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• The Eternal Lover (original magazine version; includes section published originally as "Sweetheart Primeval"; see also The Eternal Savage), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• She, by H. Rider Haggard
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• Wisdom's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard (text in Australia)

• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Illusion of Immortality (third edition; New York: Philosophical Library, c1959), by Corliss Lamont, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Belief in God and Immortality: A Psychological, Anthropoligical and Statistical Study (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., 1916), by James H. Leuba (multiple formats at Google)
• The Belief in God and Immortality: A Psychological, Anthropoligical and Statistical Study (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1921), by James H. Leuba (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (9th edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), by John Fiske
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (20th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, by William James (HTML at religion-online.org)
• The Immortality of the Soul (New York: Pub. at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1849), by Luther Lee (multiple formats at Google)
• Immortality of the Soul and Destiny of the Wicked (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1871), by N. L. Rice (page images at MOA)
• The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked Carefully Considered (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1859), by Robert W. Landis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked Carefully Considered (fifth thousand; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1868), by Robert W. Landis (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Life Everlasting (1901), by John Fiske (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Natural History of Immortality (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891), by Joseph William Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paradoxical Philosophy: A Sequel to The Unseen Universe (second edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Physical Theory of Another Life, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
• The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
• The Unity of Man, or, Life and Death Realities: A Reply to Rev. Luther Lee (1850), by George Storrs (PDF at a2z.org)
• The Unseen Universe: or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (New York: Macmillan and Co., c1875), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (page images at MOA)
• The Unseen Universe: or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (third edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1875), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Argument to Prove That Death is Not Obligatory on Christians (New York: Ennis Bros., 1875), by John Asgill, ed. by Tresham Dames Gregg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Buddhism and Immortality (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908), by William Sturgis Bigelow (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A History of the Doctrine of the Soul Among All Races and Peoples, Ancient and Modern, Including Theologians, Philosophers, Scientists, and Untutored Aboriginees (second edition, 1882), by Dudley Marvin Canright (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Immortality of the Soul, by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)
• The Life After Death, and How Theosophy Unveils It, by C. W. Leadbeater (PDF at djm.cc)
• New Light on Immortality (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1908), by E. E. Fournier d'Albe
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Dynamic Idealism: An Elementary Course in the Metaphysics of Psychology, First Entered Upon in Lectures Before Students in Philosophy at the University of Michigan (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1898), by Alfred H. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Physical Theory of Another Life, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)

• The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Miguel de Unamuno, trans. by J. E. Crawford Flitch, contrib. by Salvador de Madariaga (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Excellent Treatise of the Immortalytie of the Soule (London: Printed by I. Daye, 1581), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Thomas Stocker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Certainty of The Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of The Immortality of Souls of The Malice and Misery of The Devils and The Damned, and of The Blessedness of The Justified, Fully Evinced By The Unquestionable Histories of Apparitions, Operations, Witchcrafts, Voices &c. (title page misdated; London: Printed for T. Parkhurst and J. Salisbury, 1691), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)

• Miss Ludington's Sister, by Edward Bellamy (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1884), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality (6th edition; Boston: Ticknor and Co., c1884), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Death not Life: or, The Destruction of the Wicked (12th edition; Buffalo: The author, 1868), by Jacob Blain (multiple formats at Google)
• Death not Life: or, The Theological Hell and Endless Misery Disproved, and the Doctrine of Destruction Established, by a Collection and Explanation of All Passages on Future Punishment; Also Metaphysical Arguments for the Immortality of the Wicked Exploded (New York: Pub. at the Office of the Bible Examiner, 1853), by Jacob Blain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spice for Spiritualists: or, The Dogma of an Immortal Life Examined and Considered (Philadelphia: T. W. Stuckey, 1875), by John J. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unity of the Faith (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881), by William R. Hart (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The State of the Dead and the Destiny of the Wicked (Battle Creek, MI: Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1873), by Uriah Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.