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100 1 _aDe Quincey, Thomas,
_d1785-1859,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aConfessions of an English Opium-Eater /
_cThomas De Quincey
264 _aSurrey, United kingdom :
_bALAM BOOKS LTD,
_c2019
264 4 _c©1821
300 _a153 pages :
_c20 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aBibliography pages : 153
505 _tConfessions of an English Opium-Eater --
_tExtra Material.
520 _aIn 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.
600 1 0 _aDe Quincey, Thomas,
_d1785-1859.
650 1 0 _aDrug addicts
_vBiography
_zGreat Britain
650 2 0 _aAuthors, English
_vBiography
_y19th century
650 2 0 _aOpium abuse
_vHistory
_zEngland
_y19th century
655 7 _aAutobiographies
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