On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
by 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'.
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Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary'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'
Author Biography
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
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The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blackly comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
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The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blackly comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
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