The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Paperback • 1995 • English

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By Thomas De Quincey

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a central figure of English Romanticism. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, his best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction. De Quincey lived his full three score years and ten. But few would have predicted it, for his father and numerous of his siblings were carried off by tuberculosis. He owed his survival to opium: its powers kept the disease at bay, but in trade it kept De Quincey its slave. When the physical life hangs by a thr...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780486287423

Publisher

Dover Publications Inc.

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

The Infirmary

The Infirmary

Carly Reagon

On Being Ill

On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf

Conversations with Goethe In the Last Years of His Life

Conversations with Goethe In the Last Years of His Life

Johann Peter Eckermann

The doors of perception

The doors of perception

Aldous Huxley

The Confessions Of Frannie Langton

The Confessions Of Frannie Langton

Sara Collins

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

Edmund White

In the realm of hungry ghosts

In the realm of hungry ghosts

Gabor Maté

Chameleon in a Candy Store

Chameleon in a Candy Store

Anonymous

The Monk

The Monk

Matthew Lewis

Perfume

Perfume

Patrick Süskind

The Eve of St Agnes

The Eve of St Agnes

John Keats

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey

Vathek

Vathek

William Beckford

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The Opium War

The Opium War

Julia Lovell

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

The somnambulist

The somnambulist

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

Confessions

Confessions

Saint Augustine

Drinking for England

Drinking for England

Fergus Linnane

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

Marquis de Sade

Great Ideas a Confession

Great Ideas a Confession

Leo Tolstoy

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson

Centuries of Meditations

Centuries of Meditations

Thomas Traherne

En opiumspisers bekjennelser

En opiumspisers bekjennelser

Thomas De Quincey

Opium

Opium

Maxence Fermine

The Herbalist

The Herbalist

Benjamin Woolley

Confessions of a Sinner

Confessions of a Sinner

Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)

On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)

Baudelaire, Charles

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

Irene Taylor

The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories

The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories

Howard Marks

The Old Curiosity Shop,

The Old Curiosity Shop,

Charles Dickens

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

Gerard de Nerval

The debt to pleasure a novel

The debt to pleasure a novel

John Lanchester

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey

Intoxicated by My Illness And Other Writings on Life and Death

Intoxicated by My Illness And Other Writings on Life and Death

Anatole Broyard

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Aleister Crowley

TheConfessions

TheConfessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe