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Synopsis
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism, and aesthetic judgments, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. In addition to this essay’s Swiftian exercise in irony, he investigated the Williams case further in a postscript, resulting in a dramatic suspense-filled narrative that prefigures Capote’s In Cold Blood and the modern true-crime genre.
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About the Author
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English essayist of the Romantic period, whose most famous work is Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
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- PublisherOneworld Classics
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847491332
- ISBN 13 9781847491336
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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