On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts: Annotated Edition (Quirky Classics)

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts: Annotated Edition (Quirky Classics)

Thomas De Quincey
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Author:  Thomas De Quincey
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  128
Publisher:  Alma Books Ltd
Year:  2016
ISBN:  9781847496850

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 Williams.

De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction.

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