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

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Penguin Little Black Classics #4

Thomas De Quincey

56 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 murde...

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