Excerpt from De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars and the English Mail-Coach: With Introduction and Notes The story Of the earlier, and in some respects, far more important part of De Quincey s life has been told by him self, partly in his Confessions of an English opium-eater, and partly in a series of autobiographical sketches con tributed to an Edinburgh periodical.e There are, besides, scattered throughout De Quincey's other writings, many passages of an autobiographical character. De Quincey lived to the age Of seventy-four, busily work ing to the close; and yet a full three-quarters of his life furnishes the biographer with little beyond a catalogue of more or less fugitive writings, frequent notices of change of residence, two or three domestic occurrences, and a miscellany of anecdotes characteristic of the personality and eccentricities of the man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.