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Subject(s)

• De Quincey, Thomas 1785-1859 [Browse]
• Drug addicts—Great Britain—Biography [Browse]
• Authors, English—19th century—Biography [Browse]
• Opium abuse—England—History—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• Morrison, Robert, 1961- [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics

Summary note

"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 textswlkt 2013/10.

Notes

Previous ed.: London: Penguin, 2003.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Confessions of an English opium-eater
• Suspiria de profundis
• The English mail-coach.

ISBN

• 9780199600618 (pbk.)
• 0199600619 (pbk.)

OCLC

812686055

RCP

H - S

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