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'.
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
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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...'
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| Format: | Paperback | 384 pages |
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| Dimensions | 9126 x 194 x 28mm | 301g |
| Publication date: | 20 Dec 2020 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Publication City/Country: | London, United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |