Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey with Robert Morrison (Contributor)

332 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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"I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!"This edition presents De Quincey's three finest essays in impassioned autobiogr...

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