On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Thomas De Quincey

128 pages • first pub 1827 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays philosophy dark slow-paced
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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...

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