Compulsion

Meyer Levin • Rizzoli • ISBN-13 978‑1941493021

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Compulsion

Meyer Levin • Rizzoli

ISBN-10: 1941493025 · ISBN-13: 978‑1941493021 · 2015

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This Rizzoli edition presents Meyer Levin’s seminal 1956 novel, a rigorous fictionalization of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case. By examining the psychological motivations and the subsequent legal proceedings of the 'thrill killing,' the text functions as both a cornerstone of mid-century American literature and a profound study of criminal pathology.

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Publisher: Rizzoli
2015
Pages: 456

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Author: Meyer Levin

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Inferred: American LiteratureInferred: Legal DramaInferred: ModernismInferred: Psychological ThrillerInferred: Leopold And LoebInferred: True Crime LiteratureInferred: 20th-Century American FictionInferred: Literary ClassicInferred: Crime Fiction

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Influences: Existentialism, Freudian PsychologyCornerstone of: True Crime Literature, American Legal Fiction

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