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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
'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 …
Suspiria de Profundis
A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving …
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De …
Murha taiteenlajina
Murha taiteenlajina on estetismin ylistys ja sen yhtäaikainen parodia. Teos kuljettaa esteettisyyden vaatimuksen oudolle elämän - tai pikemminkin kuoleman - alueelle, murhan …
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Caesar's Commentaries: de Bello Gallico
Caesar's Commentaries - De Bello Gallico - The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar Commentarii de Bello Gallico, also Bellum Gallicum, is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic …
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary …
The Posthumous Works of Thomas de Quincey Volume I
The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey: Speculative and Theological Essays V8
Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar by Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account …