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

Thomas De Quincey with Grevel Lindop

257 pages • first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly ...

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