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De Quincy, Thomas

 
9781646795581: Second Paper On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
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ISBN 10 : 164679558X ISBN 13 : 9781646795581
Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 1839

Synopsis

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

-Thomas De Quincey, A Second Paper on Murder(1839)


A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1839) is the second in a series of three essays Thomas De Quincey wrote on the subject of crime and black humor, the others being "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (also available from Cosimo Classics) and "Postscript [to On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts]." These essays exerted a strong influence on subsequent literary representations of crime and were lauded by such critics as G. K. Chesterton and George Orwell.

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À propos de l'auteur

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), was educated at schools in Bath and Winkfield, but left Oxford without a degree. In 1807 he settled in London, where he became close friends of the writers Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. De Quincey's influence was later seen in the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire.

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Éditeur
Cosimo Classics
Date d'édition
1839
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
164679558X
ISBN 13 
9781646795581
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
26
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