The Pleasures and Pains of Opium by Thomas De Quincey, Alethea Hayter

The Pleasures and Pains of Opium

Thomas De Quincey, Alethea Hayter

57 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history challenging dark reflective medium-paced
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Thomas De Quincey began taking opium in 1804. For him the key to Paradise, as he experienced visions of the utmost beauty an exquisite heightening of the senses and intellect. Nine years later addiction loomed, causing intense depression, lethargy...

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