Confessions Of An Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Download Confessions Of An Opium Eater PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Confessions Of An Opium Eater book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2009-02-23
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-23 with Fiction categories.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author’s most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period’s central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense “pleasures” and harrowing “pains” of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Confessions is only one part of a larger confessional project conceived by De Quincey over the course of his writing career. Gathered together in this edition, these texts provide a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth-century British aesthetic, medical, psychological, political, philosophical, social, racial, national, and imperialist attitudes. This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Other Writings
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Other Writings written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with Fiction categories.
'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!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Opium abuse categories.
Confessions Of An English Opiu
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Confessions Of An English Opiu written by Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Confessions Of An Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Confessions Of An Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with categories.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. It was criticized for presenting a too positive and too enticing picture of the opium experience to readers. And apparently, several English writers: Francis Thompson, James Thomson, William Blair, and perhaps Branwell Brontë -- were led to opium use and addiction by De Quincey's account.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater Annotated
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas de Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater Annotated written by Thomas de Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with categories.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey about his addiction to laudanum and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first great work published by De Quincey and the one that earned him fame almost overnight ..." First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions It was released as a book in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition reviewed by De Quincey. As originally published, De Quincey's account was organized in two parts: Part I begins with a notice "To the reader", to establish the narrative framework: "Here I present you, polite reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life ... ", followed by the substance of Part I, Preliminary Confessions, dedicated to the author's childhood and youth, and focused on the emotional and psychological factors that underlie subsequent experiences with opium, especially the period in his teens that De Quincey spent as a homeless fugitive on Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.Part II is divided into several sections: A relatively brief introduction and a connecting passage, followed by The Pleasures of Opium, which analyzes the early and largely positive phase of the author's experience with the drug, from 1804 to 1812; Introduction to the Dolores del Opio, which offers a second installment of autobiography, taking De Quincey from youth to maturity.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas DeQuincey
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater written by Thomas DeQuincey and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive." So begins "The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Originally published in two parts in the "London Magazine" in 1821, it is a gripping account of one Englishman's addiction to opium. Thomas De Quincey details the effects of his opium use and in so doing warns the reader of the dangers and terrors of serious drug addiction.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater By T De Quincey
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater By T De Quincey written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with categories.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater Illustrated
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas de Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-11
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater Illustrated written by Thomas de Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-11 with categories.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..."