On Murder : Considered as One of the Fine Arts

from pivic

Fair, but not my cup of tea at all. It was interesting to see a bit of philosophy thrown into the mix where murder is concerned, although this monograph was roughly a century before the start of criminology, not to mention forensic psychology. Not my style at all, but still an interesting dip int...

from Judith.Flanders

"Pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn." So wrote the essayist Thomas de Quincey in 1827, and, really, it is hard to argue with him. Even more pleasant, he went on, was to read about someone else's sweetheart bubblin...

from Judith.Flanders

"Pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn." So wrote the essayist Thomas de Quincey in 1827, and, really, it is hard to argue with him. Even more pleasant, he went on, was to read about someone else's sweetheart bubblin...