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Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1448181186 |
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.
Author | : Thomas de Quincey |
Publisher | : Gottfried & Fritz |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author | : Thomas de Quincy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781908388698 |
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Written in 1821, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' brought literary fame and not a little notoriety to Thomas de Quincy. It blew the lid on widespread opium addiction in Regency England, 'outing' such worthies as Dr Abernethy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wilberforce. 'Confessions' recounts the author's privileged public school days, his defiant truancy which led ultimately to a life of penury in London and to his rescue by, and romance with, a young prostitute. It is an intensely personal portrayal of narcotic dependence, filled with humanity, humour and beautiful prose. This classic work is essential reading for all those interested in the history and psychology of drug use, and its part in helping to open 'the doors of perception'.
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199600619 |
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1985-06-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0191605808 |
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey's personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis blends autobiography and philosophical speculation into a series of dazzling prose-poems which explore the mysteries of time, memory, and suffering. 'The English Mail-Coach' develops a richly apocalyptic vision which sets nineteenth-century England's political and imperial grandeur against the suffering and loss of innocence which it entails. This selection presents De Quincey's major works in their original uncut and unrevised versions, which in some cases have not been available for many years.
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2023-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Opium abuse |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781854772503 |
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Author | : Thomas de Quincey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780543996282 |
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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Macmillan and Co., ltd. in London, 1906.