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Second Paper On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts

Second Paper On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts - Paperback

by Thomas de Quincy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas de QuincyTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:10/3/1839Pages:26
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646795581ISBN-10:164679558XUPC:9781646795581Book Category:History, HumorBook Subcategory:Europe, FormBook Topic:Great Britain, EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.06 inchesWeight:0.036Product ID:SC67YGNHX7

"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.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646795581ISBN-10:164679558XUPC:9781646795581Book Category:History, HumorBook Subcategory:Europe, FormBook Topic:Great Britain, EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.06 inchesWeight:0.036Product ID:SC67YGNHX7
de Quincy, Thomas: - 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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