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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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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,...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..."First...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive. In that hope it is that I have drawn it...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterremains 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...
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" from Thomas De Quincey. An English author and intellectual (1785-1859).
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Annotate...
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859), second son of a linen merchant, was born in Manchester and educated at schools in Bath and Winkfield, ending at Manchester Grammar School from which he ran away to the homeless wanderings in Wales and London which he was to describe in "Confessions...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Memoirs ...
Sociology informs us that junkies lead "chaotic" lifestyles. Thomas de Quincey was the prototype of this, as in so many other things. He was the first - and still is the finest - literary dope fiend, in a lineage leading through to William Burroughs. He mined his own psyche for...
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. With...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
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