Opis: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas de Quincey

'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...'

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'.

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Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.

Szczegóły: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas de Quincey

Tytuł: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Autor: Thomas de Quincey
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
Seria: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141397887
Numer tomu: 4
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2019
Ilość stron: 58
Format: 11.0x16.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.055 kg

Recenzje: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas de Quincey

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