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The Oxford book of villains

Authors:John Mortimer, Mazal Holocaust Collection

Summary:Villains have been celebrated in song and drama, poem and fiction since the Bible first recorded the exploits of Adam's descendants. John Mortimer is ideally placed, as an author and QC, to compile an anthology of the most infamous representatives, real and imagined, of the criminal world. Whether or not the Devil has all the best tunes, Milton's Satan has some very good lines, good enough, according to Marlowe and Goethe, to persuade a man to sell his soul. Not all

Print Book, English, 1992

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992

Genre:True crime literature

Physical Description:xii, 431 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9780192141958, 9780192822772, 0192141953, 0192822772

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:24792082

Subjects:

Méchants dans la littérature

True crime literature

Villains in literature

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Oxford book of villains.

Contents:

The spirit of evil

Master crooks

Minor crooks

Murderers

Seducers and cads

Con men

Hypocrites

Traitors and spies

Tyrants

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