Description - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both
the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the
powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. ABOUT
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Annotated Edition – Also includes The Pleasures of Opium, Introduction to the Pains of Opium and The Pains of Opium
de Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars and the English Mail-Coach. with Introduction and Notes by Cecil M. Barrow ... and Mark Hunter.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse's Telescopes. Mo
