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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts - de Quincey, Thomas
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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 in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black ...

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On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN-13: 9781534926837

Trade paperback

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts 2015, Penguin Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780141397887

Paperback

On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts 2010, Oneworld Classics

ISBN-13: 9781847491336

Hardcover