Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) by Thomas De Quincey - May 2003

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Penguin Classics, 2003-04-29. Revised edition. paperback. Used: Good.

Penguin Classics, 2003-04-29. Revised edition. paperback. Used:Good.

Penguin Classics, 2003-04-29. Paperback. New.

Penguin Books , pp. xliv + 296 . Papeback. New.

pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Penguin Classics, 2003-04-29. Paperback. Like New.

pb. New. Brand New. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with th

Penguin Classics, 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. 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 describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for… Read More