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

The Pleasures and Pains of Opium

Alethea Hayter, Thomas De Quincey

57 pages first pub 1995 (view editions)

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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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