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Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Paperback • 1994 • English

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

By Thomas De Quincey

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but of...Show more

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ISBN

9781853260964

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Format

Paperback

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