De l'assassinat considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Thomas De Quincey
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"De l'assassinat considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts" by Thomas De Quincey is a trilogy of essays begun in 1827. Written as satirical lectures to a fictional gentleman's club, the essays propose examining murder purely from an aesthetic perspective. De Quincey inventories history's most notorious killings with dark humor, dismissing moral concerns while rating crimes like works of art. The real-life Ratcliff Highway murders anchor the series, inspiring club members to gather in
celebration and debate the finer points of homicidal technique and style. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Fontainas, André, 1865-1948 |
| Uniform Title | On murder considered as one of the fine arts. French |
| Title | De l'assassinat considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts |
| Original Publication | Paris: Mercure de France, 1901. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Murder_Considered_as_one_of_the_Fine_Arts |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_l%27assassinat_consid%C3%A9r%C3%A9_comme_un_des_beaux-arts |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Murder in literature |
| Subject | Murder -- England -- History |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 74790 |
| Release Date | Nov 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 399 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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