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The Oxford book of villains

An anthology of the villain in literature and life, from Satan and Caligula to Captain Hook and the Kray brothers. Barrister and author John Mortimer has compiled a collection of crooks, murderers, seducers, con men, traitors and tyrants, intended to surprise and delight the reader.
Print Book, English, 1992
Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford u.a., 1992
Anthologie
XII, 431 Seiten
9780192141958, 0192141953
243739521
The spirit of evil; master crooks; minor crooks; murderers; seducers and cads; con men; hypocrites; traitors and spies; tyrants.