Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770481052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author’s most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period’s central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense “pleasures” and harrowing “pains” of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Confessions is only one part of a larger confessional project conceived by De Quincey over the course of his writing career. Gathered together in this edition, these texts provide a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth-century British aesthetic, medical, psychological, political, philosophical, social, racial, national, and imperialist attitudes. This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.
Confessions 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 Literary Reminiscences
Author: D. Appleton And CompanyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010403357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater ...
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER
Author: THOMAS DE. QUINCEYPublisher:
ISBN: 9780483648142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIU
Author: Thomas 1785-1859 De QuinceyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361215067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781854772503
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258928155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.