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Publisher: Natal Publishing, LLC
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
First published anonymously in 1821, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey is a groundbreaking, deeply influential masterpiece of psychological non-fiction and English Romanticism. Part intimate memoir and part philosophical treatise, the work chronicles De Quincey's early life of poverty, his wanderings through the dark underbelly of London, and his subsequent profound addiction to laudanum (opium tincture). De Quincey famously shifts the contemporary narrative around substance use by brilliantly detailing both the intoxicating, architecture-shifting pleasures of the drug and the harrowing, terrifyingly vivid pains of its withdrawal. Celebrated for its lush, complex, and impassioned prose, this literary classic fundamentally shaped Western culture's understanding of addiction, altered states of consciousness, and the creative subconscious, directly inspiring future generations of psychological writers from Edgar Allan Poe to the French Decadents.
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