01802nam a22002897i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003800062040002500100082001600125100004600141245006300187264005300250264001100303300002300314336002100337337002500358338002300383504002900406505006300435520082000498600003701318650004301355650004601398650004801444655002001492OSt20200130125107.0200130t18212019enk    g      000 0 eng d  a9781847497635cRM47.90qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a828.8091 aDe Quincey, Thomas, d1785-1859,eauthor.10aConfessions of an English Opium-Eater /cThomas De Quincey  aSurrey, United kingdom : bALAM BOOKS LTD,c2019 4c©1821  a153 pages :c20 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aBibliography pages : 153  tConfessions of an English Opium-Eater -- tExtra Material.  aIn an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on “subtle and mighty opium”. At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful scenes and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze.
Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique “impassioned prose”, is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece.10aDe Quincey, Thomas,d1785-1859. 10aDrug addictsvBiographyzGreat Britain20aAuthors, EnglishvBiographyy19th century20aOpium abusevHistoryzEnglandy19th century7 aAutobiographies