Author: Thomas De QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Spanish military nun. The English mail-coach. Suspiria de profundis
Author: Thomas De QuinceyThe Spanish military nun. The English mailcoach. Suspiria de profundis
Author: Thomas De QuinceyEnglish Prose of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Hardin CraigPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Thomas De Quincey
Author: Moss Side LibraryTorch and Colonial Book Circular
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893
Author: Long Island Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The History of the English Novel
Author: Ernest Albert BakerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The Encyclopedia Americana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Confessions 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.