Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Consuming daily large quantities of laudanum, this autobiography of addiction describes surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which de Quincey became prey.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Title: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Format: 4th trade paperback printing
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.
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Publishing Info: Penguin, London
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780140430615
Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
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