Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

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nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced

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In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium " De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain I had heard of it as I ha...

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