title: On Murder (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Thomas De Quincey
description: <br><strong>Robert Morrison</strong> is a Professor of English Literature at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is co-editor of the multi-volume <em>The Works of Thomas De Quincey</em> and editor of Volume Three of <em>The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt</em>.<br>
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  # De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Thomas De Quincey, Edited by William Edward Simonds
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  HOW TO READ DE QUINCEY.
  
  
  REVOLT OF THE TARTARS;
  
  
  NOTES.
  
  
  
  
  
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  DE QUINCEY'S REVOLT OF THE TARTARS
  
  
  Edited with Introduction and Notes
  
  
  by
  
  
  WILLIAM EDWARD SIMONDS, PH.D. Professor of the English Language and
  
  
  Literature in Knox College
  
  
  Boston, U.S.A. Ginn &Company, Publishers The Athenaeum Press
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration: Thomas de Quincey. (After a drawing by ARCHER.)]
  
  
  “In addition to the general impression of his
  
  
  diminutiveness and fragility, one was struck with the
  
  
  peculiar beauty of his head and forehead, rising
  
  
  disproportionately high over his small wrinkly visage
  
  
  and gentle deep-set 