On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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"On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" is a trilogy of essays by Thomas De Quincey begun in 1827, published in 1854. The essays give a satirical account of a gentleman's club that celebrates homicide from an aesthetic perspective, with the Ratcliff Highway murders of 1811 as a keystone throughout the series. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey has 128 pages.

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