Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Thomas De Quincey

210 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhoo...

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