Confessions of an English opium-eater / Thomas De Quincey ; cover design by Andrea Worthington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Quincey, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Worthington, Andrea, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.

De Quincey, Thomas.

Drug addicts--Great Britain--Biography.

Drug addicts.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Opium abuse--England.

Opium abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timeless memoir of drug addiction from one of the leading intellectuals of the Victorian age At first, Thomas De Quincey found opium to be a harmless pleasure. A twenty-year-old intellectual living in nineteenth-century London, De Quincey took laudanum sparingly, spacing out his doses so their effect would not be dulled. But after years of casual use, intense stomach pains caused him to rely on the drug more and more, until he was taking opium daily, and living in a world divided between hallucinatory bliss and aching physical torment. De Quincey's account of his addiction made him a celebrity. His rhapsodies of hallucination influenced generations of authors, from Poe and Baudelaire to Jorge Luis Borges, and warned countless readers of the dangers of drug dependency.

Contents:

Title Page; TO THE READER; PRELIMINARY CONFESSIONS; PART II; THE PLEASURES OF OPIUM; INTRODUCTION TO THE PAINS OF OPIUM; THE PAINS OF OPIUM; May 1818; June 1819; APPENDIX; Copyright

Notes:

"Originally published in 1800"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 12, 2016).

ISBN:

1-5040-3395-7

OCLC:

935669603