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Quirky Classics: On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Thomas De Quincey
- Alma Books - Quirky Classics
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Publisher | Alma Books - Quirky Classics |
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ISBN | 9781847496850 |
Publication date | January 2017 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 120 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idiosyncratic 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.