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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Kindergarten | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life ...' The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - And Other Stories by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. "Confessions" is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipp ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Fiction
"I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater..." "I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night - nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or... of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." In an exami ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecst ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued fro ...Show more
Confessions of an Opium Eater by Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey (Created by)
Category: Biography
Great Ideas: Confessions of an English Opium Eater by DE QUINCEY THOMAS
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later gen ...Show more
ON MURDER by DE QUINCEY THOMAS
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination'Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the not ...Show more