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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Thomas De Quincey

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  • Title Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  • Author Thomas De Quincey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Broadview Press, Canada
  • Date 2009
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1551114356I3N00
  • ISBN 9781551114354 / 1551114356
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 1280
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Crime/Criminology
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

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.

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About the author

Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.