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"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 " This edition presents De Quincey's three finest essays in impassioned autobiography, edited by leading De Quincey... Read Full Overview

"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 "

This edition presents De Quincey's three finest essays in impassioned autobiography,... Read Full Overview

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation... Read Full Overview

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview