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Download this eBook On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts


Thomas De Quincey


'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...'In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic...

Publication date: 2015-02-26
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Publisher: Penguin
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings


Thomas De Quincey


'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug...

Publication date: 2013-02-14
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings


Thomas De Quincey


'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug...

Publication date: 2013-02-14
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater


Thomas De Quincey


WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the...

Publication date: 2013-01-03
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Publisher: Vintage Digital
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On Murder


Thomas De Quincey


'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as...

Publication date: 2006-01-12
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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On Murder


Thomas De Quincey


'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as...

Publication date: 2006-01-12
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater


Thomas De Quincey


"Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness alteringproperties of the...

Publication date: 2003-03-27
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Publisher: Penguin
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Download this eBook Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (suivi de Portrait d'Emmanuel Kant  par J-F. Michaud) [édition intégrale revue et mise à jour]
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Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (suivi de Portrait d'Emmanuel Kant par J-F. Michaud) [édition intégrale revue et mise à jour]


Thomas De Quincey , Thomas De Quincey , Joseph-François Michaud


Grâce aux mémoires laissés par Wasianski pour la majeure partie de ses sources, de Quincey prête ses mots au fidèle ami de Kant pour raconter les derniers moments du célèbre philosophe allemand. Suivant méticuleusement les événements des journées de Kant, de Quincey...

Publication date: 2019-03-13
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Publisher: Ink book
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L'Énigme de la Sphinx


Thomas De Quincey , Thomas De Quincey , Boris Donne


Trois mille ans se sont écoulés depuis que la Sphinx a posé cette énigme : “Quelle est la créature qui marche sur quatre pieds le matin, sur deux pieds à midi, et sur trois au coucher du soleil ?” Œdipe répondit que c’était l’homme, qui marche enfant à quatre pattes, se...

Publication date: 2019-02-07
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Publisher: Editions Allia
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Le bras de la vengeance


Thomas De Quincey , Alain Jumeau


En 1816, une petite ville paisible du nord-est de l’Allemagne est frappée par une série de meurtres sanglants, aussi épouvantables qu’inexplicables. Les crimes odieux se succèdent, sans doute de la même main, mais sans logique apparente. C’est pourtant bien de vengeance...

Publication date: 2018-01-01
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Publisher: Editions Gallimard
Collection: Folio 2 euros
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Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant


Thomas De Quincey


Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant Thomas de QuinceyCet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Partant des notes prises par Wasianski, l'ancien élève qui s'occupa de Kant à...

Publication date: 2013-10-14
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Publisher: Culture Commune
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Le mangeur d'opium


Thomas De Quincey


En Angleterre, au XVIIIe siècle, est inventé le laudanum, liqueur à base d'opium. On l'utilise en médecine comme remède aux maux physiques et psychologiques. C'est en Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) que cette drogue trouve un prescripteur de génie. Dans cette œuvre de...

Publication date: 2000-11-22
Format: ePub
Collection: La Petite Collection
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Download this eBook L'Anglais mangeur d'opium
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L'Anglais mangeur d'opium


Thomas De Quincey


Pansement de l’âme, l’opium a fasciné une pléiade de poètes. De Quincey propose la genèse de ses hallucinations. À consommer sans modération.

Publication date: 2018
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Publisher: NumiLog
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