New Essays by de Quincey: His Contributions to the Edinburgh Saturday Post and the Edinburgh Evening Post

by Thomas de Quincey and Stuart M. Tave

This is the first time these essays have been collected and identified as De Quincey's. Each essay or article is reprinted with full annotation and the author's reasons for attributing it to De Quincey. The essays vary in length and in subject matter: some are addressed to "The Editor"; some are critical reviews of contemporary magazines; some are week-to-week political commentaries on issues facing the second Tory party. Together they show De Quincey,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691060835
• ISBN13: 9780691060835
• Release Date: June 1966
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.