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

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Penguin Little Black Classics #4

Thomas De Quincey

64 pages first pub 1827 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays philosophy dark slow-paced
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'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 i...

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