On murder / Thomas De Quincey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison.
Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey coolly dissects the art of murder and its perfections, in a mixt...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth
- On murder considered as one of the fine arts
- The avenger
- Second paper on murder considered as one of the fine arts
- Postscript [to On murder considered as one of the fine arts]