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Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater; Being An Extract From The Life Of A Scholar

Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater; Being An Extract From The Life Of A Scholar

de Quincey, Thomas

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ISBN10: 9354505767
ISBN13: 9789354505768
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the high wears off, literature sharpens. Then the dreams begin tonight. Thomas De Quincey's Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater is a romantic era memoir that reads like a classic literary autobiography and a confessional prose essay at once: candid, elegant, and unsettlingly intimate. Moving through 19th century England and this Regency London memoir's streets, De Quincey charts how curiosity becomes dependence, and how an opium addiction memoir can also be an altered consciousness narrative - a record of shifting time, magnified sensation, and the moral recoil that follows. His clear-eyed self-scrutiny makes room for the spectacular: dreams and hallucinations rendered with painterly precision, where private fear and guilty pleasure take monumental shape. A landmark of romanticism and addiction, these pages helped define how modern writers speak about compulsion, memory, and the mind's theatre. Read it for its psychological honesty, its rhythmic prose, and its place beside the era's wider fascination with drugs, including the Samuel Taylor Coleridge opium story and its cultural aftershocks. It remains essential for anyone drawn to memoir that refuses to tidy itself up. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Whether you study it alongside an annotated edition for students or keep it as a complete unabridged classic on the shelf, it rewards both the casual reader and the devoted classic-literature collector, and speaks urgently across two centuries.

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