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Publisher: Alma

Author: Thomas de Quincey

ISBN: 9781847496850

Year: 2016

Format: Paperback

Historical fiction, Mystery

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

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$ 250.00 mxn

On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts by

Thomas de Quincey

Summary

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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