Author: De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The English Mail-coach, and Others Essays
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Superstition
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The English Mail Coach and Other Writings
Author: De QuinceyThe Works of Thomas De Quincey: The English mail coach and other writings
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThe English Mail-Coach; and, Joan of Arc
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368352288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Spanish military nun. The English mailcoach. Suspiria de profundis
Author: Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191637904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1389
Book Description
'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 from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Writing the Stage Coach Nation
Author: Ruth LiveseyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198769431
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Author: Thomas de Quincey
Author: Thomas De Quincey