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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781847497635
  • Weight: 160g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2018
  • Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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 and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful scenes and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze.

Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey’s unique “impassioned prose”, is now widely deemed to be De Quincey’s masterpiece.
About Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was a journalist and author best known for Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, ‘Suspiria de Profundis’ and ‘The English Mail-Coach’. His extraordinary and wide-ranging influence can be felt in authors from Baudelaire to J.G. Ballard, with the former describing him as “one of the most original minds” in England.

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