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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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By Thomas De Quincey

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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'.In...Show more

Literary essays

Classic fiction: general and literary

Humour

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9780141397887

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Penguin Books Ltd

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2015

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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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Paperback

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