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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Oneworld Classics Gift Editions)

Author Thomas Quincey

Format Hardcover

Publisher Oneworld Classics

Category Essays and Letters

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In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism, and aesthetic judgments, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. In addition to this essay’s Swiftian exercise in irony, he investigated the Williams case further in a postscript, resulting in a dramatic suspense-filled narrative that prefigures Capote’s In Cold Blood and the modern true-crime genre.

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Release Date: 2010-08-01
Publisher: Oneworld Classics
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781847491336

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