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Suspiria de Profundis

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Suspiria de Profundis written by Thomas De Quincey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Gottfried & Fritz. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540563842
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas De Quincey was a prominent English essayist and journalist in the early 19th century. De Quincey's most famous work is Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which is considered one of the first works of addiction literature. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, which was published in 1821, is still widely read today

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903385838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397896
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199600619
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.

Ann of Oxford Street

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Ann of Oxford Street written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Opium-Eater

Author : David Morrell
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316261386
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Opium-Eater written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath. Thomas De Quincey -- the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead -- was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six children were trapped in the mountains of England's Lake District. Even more gripping is what happened after. This is the true tale of how Thomas De Quincey became the Opium-Eater, brought to life by award-winning storyteller David Morrell. An afterword contains numerous photographs of the dramatic locations in the story.

De Quincey's Romanticism

Author : Margaret Russett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521572361
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book De Quincey's Romanticism written by Margaret Russett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the 'minor' author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon. The case of De Quincey, neither a canonical figure nor a disenfranchised marginal author, offers a point of access to specifically Romantic problems of literary transmission and periodization. Taking an intertextual approach, Russett situates De Quincey's career against the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge; the essays of Lamb, Hazlitt, and other writers for the London Magazine; and discourses of ethics and political economy which are central to the problem of determining literary value. De Quincey's Romanticism shows how De Quincey helped to shape the canon by which his career was defined.

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0191605808
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1985-06-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey's personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis blends autobiography and philosophical speculation into a series of dazzling prose-poems which explore the mysteries of time, memory, and suffering. 'The English Mail-Coach' develops a richly apocalyptic vision which sets nineteenth-century England's political and imperial grandeur against the suffering and loss of innocence which it entails. This selection presents De Quincey's major works in their original uncut and unrevised versions, which in some cases have not been available for many years.

The Infection of Thomas De Quincey

Author : John Barrell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300049329
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Infection of Thomas De Quincey written by John Barrell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen volumes of his collected writings concerns the history, the colonial development, and increasingly the threat presented by the Orient in all its manifestations--human, animal, and microbiological. This remarkable book, which is an account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental, is also an extraordinary analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture. John Barrell paints a picture of De Quincey as a happy family man, apparently at ease with himself and with the rest of the world, but in fact harboring and expressing the most ferocious and brutal denunciation of Orientals of all kinds and dreaming of exacting from them a terrible retribution. Barrell shows that throughout De Quincey's writings there is a repeated story of the murder or violation of a female victim--either within or outside De Quincey's family--by an oriental criminal This story finds its way into almost everything he wrote: the various versions of his autobiography, his novels and short stories, his biographical and critical writings, his essays on politics, history, and science. Barrell attempts to understand this European terror of the East by an approach that is both historical and psychoanalytic. In particular, he explores the relation between childhood anxiety and imperial guilt in a body of writing in which the fear of violence within the family is imaged as a fear of the oriental, and the private and the public, the sexual and the imperial, the feminine and the exotic are endlessly intertwined. This book will be fascinating reading for those interested in Victorian literature, in psychoanalysis and its relation to literature, in the history of imperialism, and in debates about the characteristics and effects of colonial discourse.

The Taboo

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438131054
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Taboo written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an examination of the use of the taboo in classic literary works.

A Companion to Romanticism

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631218777
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Romanticism written by Duncan Wu and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey

Author : De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Recollections of the Lakes and Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey written by De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiographic Sketches

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographic Sketches written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854772503
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Romantic Art of Confession

Author : Susan M. Levin
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131898
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Art of Confession written by Susan M. Levin and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic Art of Confession is about works specifically entitled "confessions" written during the Romantic period in Britain and France. Reading these similarly conceived texts together illuminates uniquely the Romantic art of confession as it illuminates the written craft of self-recollection and definition.