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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Quincey, Thomas de

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ISBN10: 0486287424
ISBN13: 9780486287423
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Sep 28 1995
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 (he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache). It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence.

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