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: Key themes include alienation , the denial of death , and the pain of living .

: It explores the struggle between good and evil, the power of myth, and "lived human hope" against "moral inevitability". Pale Rider

: You can find more about this film on Turner Classic Movies or read the novelization by Alan Dean Foster . : Key themes include alienation , the denial

: It follows Miranda, a young journalist who falls in love with a soldier named Adam while battling a near-fatal case of influenza. : Key themes include alienation

: The "pale horse" represents the omnipresence of death during the plague and war.

This 1939 short novel is a hallmark of modernist literature, set during the 1918 flu pandemic and World War I.