Download or read book Mortal Lessons written by Richard Selzer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of nineteen essays that describe the surgeon's art. Both moving and perversely funny, it is a classic that considers both workings of the human body and also the meaning of life and death.