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On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts

On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism and aesthetic judgements, in a work strewn with examples ranging from...
By: Thomas de Quincey
ISBN: 9781847491336
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The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed biography of his posterior, enlivened by some inspired wordplay....
By: Jonathan Swift
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Benefit of Farting (The)

Benefit of Farting (The)

What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be a taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful and a posteriori fashion,...
By: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781847490315
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Aphorisms

Aphorisms

Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the figure of the Great Emperor, French novelist Honoré de Balzac set himself the painstaking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time....
By: Napoleon Bonaparte
ISBN: 9781847490322
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Dirty Limericks

Dirty Limericks

Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in...
By: Anonymous
ISBN: 9781847490384
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World of Sex

World of Sex

Many people have castigated the shamelessness of the Tropic novels‚ which for a long time were widely suppressed and illicitly supplied under the counter, and have been at a loss to explain how their author could have simultaneously maintained a...
By: Henry Miller
ISBN: 9781847490353
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Decay of Lying (The)

Decay of Lying (The)

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...
By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781847490674
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Lars Porsena

Lars Porsena

Robert Graves's tongue-in-cheek treatise laments the decline of swearing and foul language in England and looks back with nostalgia at the glory days of oaths and blasphemies. Written when Graves was teaching at Cairo University in 1926, a time when...
By: Robert Graves
ISBN: 9781847490681
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Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

In 1864, Lewis Carroll sent Alice’s Adventures Under Ground , a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, as a gift to Alice Liddell, the daughter of his Oxford dean. This formed the basis for Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland – introducing timeless...
By: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9781847490957
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