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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
The Battle of the Books (Alma Quirky Classics) by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books ...Show more
The Death of a Civil Servant by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Excl ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Alma Quirky Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn into a discussion about art, nature, literature and imagination. The Decay of Lying sees Wilde explore his ...Show more
The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absu ...Show more
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