Ann: a Memory. [Extracted from "The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."].
Title | Ann: a Memory. [Extracted from "The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."]. PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Title | Confessions of an English Opium-eater PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN |
The Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Title | The Confessions of an English Opium-eater PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Opium abuse |
ISBN |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Title | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-12-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983408168 |
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict.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 later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Title | The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 PDF eBook |
Author | British Library (London) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Title | The Confessions of an English Opium Eater PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Title | Confessions of an Opium Eater PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2018-08-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781726245463 |
Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater. A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict. 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 later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.