De Quincey, Thomas 1785-1859 creator Fontainas, André 1865-1948 text utu 2024 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Murder_Considered_as_one_of_the_Fine_Arts Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_l%27assassinat_consid%C3%A9r%C3%A9_comme_un_des_beaux-arts Release date is 2024-11-24 Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) Originally published: Paris: Mercure de France, 1901 Murder in literature Murder -- England -- History PR Paris: Mercure de France, 1901 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54758325 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74790 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54758325 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74790 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134730.0 74790