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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [Didactic Press Paperbacks]

Author : Thomas de Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781547055692
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481052
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author’s most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period’s central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense “pleasures” and harrowing “pains” of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Confessions is only one part of a larger confessional project conceived by De Quincey over the course of his writing career. Gathered together in this edition, these texts provide a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth-century British aesthetic, medical, psychological, political, philosophical, social, racial, national, and imperialist attitudes. This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.

De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140439014
Total Pages : 356 pages
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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 Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first literary addiction memoir, featuring the autobiographical Suspiria de Profundis, the inspiration for the 2018 horror film Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton and directed by Luca Guadagnino In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821, and reproduces two “sequels”: Suspiria de Profundis (1845) and The English Mail-Coach (1849). It also includes a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict and the tradition of confessional literature, and an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721736041
Total Pages : 142 pages
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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 2018-06-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar by Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..." First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey. The Confessions maintained a place of primacy in De Quincey's literary output, and his literary reputation, from its first publication; "it went through countless editions, with only occasional intervals of a few years, and was often translated. Since there was little systematic study of narcotics until long after his death, De Quincey's account assumed an authoritative status and actually dominated the scientific and public views of the effects of opium for several generations."

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Large Print Edition

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494241704
Total Pages : 226 pages
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIU

Author : Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360812366
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIU written by Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Special Edition

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986306690
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Special Edition written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Author : Thomas De Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511773812
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book The Confessions of an English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Thomas De Quincey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive. In that hope it is that I have drawn it up; and that must be my apology for breaking through that delicate and honourable reserve which, for the most part, restrains us from the public exposure of our own errors and infirmities. Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers: and for any such acts of gratuitous self-humiliation from those who can be supposed in sympathy with the decent and self-respecting part of society, we must look to French literature, or to that part of the German which is tainted with the spurious and defective sensibility of the French.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724912473
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Annotated)

Author : Thomas de Quincey
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Total Pages : 94 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Thomas de Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781296214777
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Illustrated

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [Christmas Summary Classics]

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494331658
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