Author: Thomas de QuinceyPublisher: Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas de QuinceyPublisher: Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrumPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903385838
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Suspiria de Profundis
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
The Opium-Eater
Author: David MorrellPublisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316261386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath. Thomas De Quincey -- the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead -- was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six children were trapped in the mountains of England's Lake District. Even more gripping is what happened after. This is the true tale of how Thomas De Quincey became the Opium-Eater, brought to life by award-winning storyteller David Morrell. An afterword contains numerous photographs of the dramatic locations in the story.
De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141397896
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
The Taboo
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131054
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Provides an examination of the use of the taboo in classic literary works.
Murder as a Fine Art
Author: David MorrellPublisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316216771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.
A Companion to Romanticism
Author: Duncan WuPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631218777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
Author: Thomas De Quincey