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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Total Pages : 566 pages
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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 1899 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481052
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140439014
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
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.
Author : THOMAS DE. QUINCEY
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ISBN 13 : 9780483648142
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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 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Total Pages : 282 pages
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Author : D. Appleton And Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010403340
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium - Eater Literary Reminiscences written by D. Appleton And Company and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 552 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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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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:
Author : Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781361215067
Total Pages : 212 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 2016-08-25 with total page 212 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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781519774101
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Author : Thomas de Quincey
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Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Annotated) written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey about his addiction to laudanum and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first great work published by De Quincey and the one that earned him fame almost overnight ..." First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions It was released as a book in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition reviewed by De Quincey. As originally published, De Quincey's account was organized in two parts: Part I begins with a notice "To the reader", to establish the narrative framework: "Here I present you, polite reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life ... ", followed by the substance of Part I, Preliminary Confessions, dedicated to the author's childhood and youth, and focused on the emotional and psychological factors that underlie subsequent experiences with opium, especially the period in his teens that De Quincey spent as a homeless fugitive on Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.Part II is divided into several sections: A relatively brief introduction and a connecting passage, followed by The Pleasures of Opium, which analyzes the early and largely positive phase of the author's experience with the drug, from 1804 to 1812; Introduction to the Dolores del Opio, which offers a second installment of autobiography, taking De Quincey from youth to maturity.
Author : Thomas de Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781721758203
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Confessions of an English OpiumEater written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English OpiumEaterThomas de QuinceyThis edition presents De Quincey's three finest essays in impassioned autobiography, edited by leading De Quincey scholar and biographer Robert Morrison. 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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Total Pages : 507 pages
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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 1899 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721736041
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
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."
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 : 9781297090844
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Literary Reminiscences; From the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, Volume I - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 366 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.
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ISBN 13 : 9781296214777
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 158 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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Total Pages : 147 pages
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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Illustrated written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, autobiographical narrative by English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in The London Magazine in two parts in 1821, then as a book, with an appendix, in 1822. The avowed purpose of the first version of the Confessions was to warn the reader of the dangers of opium, and it combined the interest of a journalistic exposé of a social evil, told from an addict's point of view, with a somewhat contradictory and seductive picture of the subjective pleasures of drug addiction. The book begins with an autobiographical account of the author's addiction. It then describes in effective detail the euphoric and highly symbolic reveries that he experienced under the drug's influence and recounts the horrible nightmares that continued use of the drug eventually produced. The highly poetic and imaginative prose of the Confessions makes it one of the enduring stylistic masterpieces of English literature. Athough De Quincey ends his narrative at a point at which he is drug-free, he remained an opium addict for the rest of his life. In 1856 he rewrote the Confessions and added descriptions of opium-inspired dreams that had already appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in about 1845 under the title Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). But his literary style in the revised version tends to be difficult, involved, and even verbose, and his additions and digressions dilute the artistic impact of the original.
