Confessions of an English Opium Eater Trade paperback - 2003
by De Quincey, Thomas
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In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
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- Title Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Author De Quincey, Thomas
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, London
- Date 2003
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 345700
- ISBN 9780140439014 / 0140439013
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.08 x 0.82 in (20.17 x 12.90 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1280
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 19th century, De Quincey, Thomas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003286414
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.