Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By Thomas De Quincey" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness alteringproperties of the drug, its pleasures and its pains.
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater: By Thomas de Quincey - Illustrated
By Thomas De Thomas De QuinceyHow is this book unique?
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By Thomas De QuinceyOn this subject I am afraid I shall be rather obscure, but I can assure the reader not at all more so than Marinus in his Life of Proclus, or many other biographers and autobiographers of fair reputation. This pleasure, I have said, ...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By Thomas De QuinceyOften pointed to as the first narcotics memoir, Confessions of an English Opium Eater anticipated the new sub-genre of addiction literature that would flourish in the second half of the twentieth century and was an immediate influence on ...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By Thomas De QuinceyThe Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.