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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: A Classic Memoir of Addiction, Dreams, and Romantic Literature
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ISBN13: 9781617205293
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 6 2012
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is one of the defining literary memoirs of the nineteenth century and a landmark in the literature of addiction. Thomas De Quincey's extraordinary account of opium use, memory, suffering, pleasure, and dependence transformed a private experience into one of the most influential prose works of the Romantic age. First published in 1821, it brought De Quincey immediate fame and helped establish the modern drug memoir as a literary form.
The book moves between autobiography, psychological reflection, dream vision, and social observation. De Quincey recounts his early wanderings, poverty, intellectual life, physical pain, use of laudanum, and the haunting dreams and anxieties that followed. Written in a richly elaborate style, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is both a personal narrative and a study of altered consciousness, shaped by the literary world of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the English Romantics.
For readers of classic memoir, Romantic literature, addiction writing, psychological autobiography, and nineteenth-century prose, De Quincey's Confessions remains essential. Its influence has extended across literature, medicine, cultural history, and the modern understanding of narcotics, making it one of the most enduring and unsettling works of personal testimony in English.
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