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 QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140439014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821, and reproduces two “sequels”: Suspiria de Profundis (1845) and The English Mail-Coach (1849). It also includes a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict and the tradition of confessional literature, and an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Confessions of an English Opium-eater ...
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey One of the leading critics and imaginative prose writers of English Romanticism, De Quincey spent a great deal of life living in a Bohemian manner, while struggling against debt and addiction to opium. This famed book is his compelling account of this early life and his experiences with opium.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448181186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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 ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"Note Book of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey is an autobiographical account written by De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. De Quincey's account was organized into multiple parts to showcase his different thoughts and the ways the drug left an impact on him. From murder to history, the book takes readers into the mind and political ideals of someone who is suffering from addiction.
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.
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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