On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Penguin Little Black Classics)
3 journalers for this copy...
The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blackly comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
"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..."
"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..."
Book will be send to Canada by post with help of http://bigbookring.com/
Wow, a book all the way from Latvia, as part of the Big Bookring! Thanks very much.
This book didn't really grab me. I guess its not my kind of humour. Mostly it seemed boring, although I did find it interesting to look up the actual murders that are referred to. I think its style is a difficult one for modern readers.
I'm sending this book to Russia as part of the Big Bookring. Safe travels little book!
Journal Entry 6 by MosFemale at Мoсква (Moscow), Moscow (Federal City) Russia on Thursday, September 19, 2019
Hi there!
Book in Moscow!
Book in Moscow!
