Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings (De Quincey Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

"I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater...""I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night - nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or... of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience."In an examination of his laudanum addiction, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of a life spent in dependence on "subtle and mighty opium." At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful visions and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze.This edition also includes the classic 'Suspiria de Profundis' and 'The English Mail-Coach', both continuing De Quincey's
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