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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Oneworld Classics Gift Editions)
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Author:Thomas De Quincey 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 Sw... more »iftian 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.« less