TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Quincey,Thomas
TI  - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
SN  - 9781847497635
U1  - 828.809 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Surrey, United kingdom : 
PB  - ALAM BOOKS LTD
KW  - De Quincey, Thomas,
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - Biography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Opium abuse
KW  - History
KW  - England
KW  - Autobiographies
N1  - Bibliography pages : 153; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater --; Extra Material
N2  - In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent 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 scenes and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze.
Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique “impassioned prose”, is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece
ER  -