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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater by De Quincy Thomas - Book - Paperback

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Publication Year
1994
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Item Height
198mm
Author
Thomas de Quincey
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Topic
Books
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
154g
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. 'The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing - the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworth's 'The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind '- and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western World's ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight and colourful descriptive writing, it surprised and fascinated De Quincey's contemporaries and has continued to exert its powerful and eccentric appeal ever since. AUTHOR: Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist remembered for his book 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'. Taking opium for the first time in 1804, to relieve a toothache, he continued to consume it for the rest of his life. Highly regarded during his lifetime, and into the twentieth century, subsequently his popularity declined until his tales of drug-induced visions found a new audience in the 1960s.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN-13
9781853260964
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Book Title
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author
Thomas de Quincey
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1994
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
154g

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Thomas De Quincey
Series Title
Wordsworth Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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  • by rubylinda67
    21 Oct, 2011

    Its a whole other world

    I wondered what it would of been like to be a highly intelligent person, but still be taken in by a curse that anyone can fall into. It doesn't matter who you are, it can happen to anyone.

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