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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey
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| #65485 in Books | imusti | 2003-04-29 | 2003-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.90 x5.10l,.59 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Penguin Classics||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful prose style|By agnostic|Interesting work, in a beautiful prose style. Obviously, this is not for the general public (at least today, although presumably more so when it was first published). It is a slim volume, in this, its original published version, and, as others have pointed out, is not mainly a "confession" regarding substance abuse. The author gives a fair amou|About the Author|Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) studied at Oxford, failing to take his degree but discovering opium. He later met Coleridge, Southey and the Wordsworths. From 1828 until his death he lived in Edinburgh and made his living from journalism. |
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. F...
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