The Reason Why: Anthology of the Murderous Mind - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224037137 ISBN 13: 9780224037136

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1995

Synopsis

Described as a psychological literary anthology, this is a collection of writings by a number of authors on the subject of murder, and what prompts men and women to commit it. The collection has been chosen and introduced by the crime-writer Ruth Rendell, and endeavours to see into the mind of murderers, their thoughts and dreams, their murderous acts and their remorse, in fiction and in fact. The anthology draws on the works of celebrated writers, including Shakespeare, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edgar Allan Poe, John Banville, P.D. James, Patricia Highsmith, Sigmund Freud, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Norman Mailer, Rachel de Quieroz and Melanie Klein.

About this title

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orld's most acclaimed mystery writers presents an anthology of literary depictions of murder that delves into the human passions, terrors, and foibles that incite the act and linger in its wake. Includes such writers as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Poe, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, P.D. James, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224037137
• ISBN 13: 9780224037136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Rendell Ruth