Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings by Robert Morrison, Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Robert Morrison, Thomas De Quincey

332 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced

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"I took it: - and in an hour, oh Heavens what a revulsion what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit what an apocalypse of the world within me " This edition presents De Quincey's three finest essays in impassioned autobiog...

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