Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais
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Leonard Wolf is a professor of English at San Francisco State University. He annotated "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", and wrote other books. This 1980 book is about the life and crimes of Gilles de... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0517540614
ISBN13:9780517540619
Release Date:June 1980
Publisher:Random House Value Publishing
Length:259 Pages
Weight:1.41 lbs.
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Highly readable bio of one of history's worst criminals.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Gilles de Rais is probably an unfamiliar name to most, but he was a lieutenant of Joan of Arc's. They fought closely together but after she was executed, well, he became one of history's first serial murderers. He killed up to 200 children in horrible ways--Dahmer and Bundy have nothing on Gilles de Rais. Wolf writes very well, and tries to understand the psychology of such a character. De Rais was contradictory--murder for him was a way to reach God, or the Devil, or something divine and not of this world. Wolf is an expert on horror & Gothic lit. Well-researched & more readable than others on de Rais. If you're one of those people who think movie & tv violence instigate horrible acts, just remember Gilles de Rais. He wasn't wasn't watching no Oliver Stone movie, that's for sure.
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