Thomas De Quincey ; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Morrison.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Oxford :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Oxford University Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2006.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource (xxxvii, 201 pages)
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عنوان فروست
Oxford world's classics
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxii).
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متن يادداشت
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].
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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 mixture of reportage, black satire, and aesthetic criticism. The volume also contains 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' and De Quincey's finest tale of terror, 'The Avenger'. - ;'For 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 an.