On Murder
'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination'Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the art of murder and its perfections. Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage and brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetra…
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Weitere Autoren: Morrison, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160475-1
- EAN: 9780191604751
- Produktnummer: 13918046
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'229 KB
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Robert Morrison is co-editor of the multi-volume The Works of Thomas De Quincey and editor of Volume Three of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt.
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