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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
On Murder - Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Ser.
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 4
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e ...Show more