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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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| #177431 in Books | Thomas De Quincey | 2003-04-29 | 2003-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.90 x5.10l,.59 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Confessions of an English Opium Eater||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Quite interesting|By Andreea|By the time Thomas De Quincey wrote "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" the subject of narcotics was very much a taboo, thus the author was the founder of a new type of literature - addiction literature. The book`s structure is as follows: Part l (To the Reader and Preliminary Confessions), Part II (Pleasures of Opium, Introduction to the P|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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