Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Essays on Men of Letters ... With Portrait & Memoir. (Notes from the Pocket-book of an Opium-eater, Etc.).
Author: Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English opium-eater and Essays on men of letters
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Category : Opium
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Essays on Men of Letters
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461326963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Essays on Men of Letters
Author: Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-eater
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Category : Drug addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Essays on Mens of Letters
Author: Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-eater ...
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The English Opium-Eater
Author: Robert MorrisonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A masterful biography of England's most notorious literary figure. Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods— including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a topical figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison’s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A timeless memoir of drug addiction from one of the leading intellectuals of the Victorian age At first, Thomas De Quincey found opium to be a harmless pleasure. A twenty-year-old intellectual living in nineteenth-century London, De Quincey took laudanum sparingly, spacing out his doses so their effect would not be dulled. But after years of casual use, intense stomach pains caused him to rely on the drug more and more, until he was taking opium daily, and living in a world divided between hallucinatory bliss and aching physical torment. De Quincey’s account of his addiction made him a celebrity. His rhapsodies of hallucination influenced generations of authors, from Poe and Baudelaire to Jorge Luis Borges, and warned countless readers of the dangers of drug dependency.
Author: Thomas De Quincey