Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays

PLEASE NOTE: this is the 1972 edition and has a different front cover to that shown. Penguin Books, 1972. ISBN: 14002297X. Softcover showing portrait of the author by Peter Blake. Very good condition. Good, tight binding. Previous owner dedication neatly to top left-hand corner of inside front cover, otherwise internally clean, bright and unmarked. A collection of some of the less accessible essays by the author of 'Animal Farm', including his lament for the inferior quality of modern murders and his comments on the changing face of fictional crime; his long essay on Dickens, and his shrewd critical remarks on Kipling and on the particular genius of Salvador Dali; eyewitness accounts of a hanging in Burma and a lazar-house in Paris; with notes on nationalism, on seaside postcards, and on his own ambition - surely realised - to make political writing into an art. 18 x 11 cm. 188 pp. Librarius is a small UK-based family business and we pride ourselves on our customer service. Orders will be securely wrapped and usually dispatched same or next day. Full refunds will be given if you are unhappy with your purchase and return it within 10 days. Photographs of all of our books are available on request; please feel free to email with any enquiries.