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Can I read Trials of Passion : Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness on EtoBox?
Trials of Passion : Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness by Lisa Appignanesi is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Trials of Passion : Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness about?
A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human. Outside fiction, individual emotions and the inner life had rarely been publicly discussed:
Who reads Trials of Passion : Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lisa Appignanesi
- Publisher
- New York: Pegasus Crime;[New York]: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company;
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781605988146
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- True Crime, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.18 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14