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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Opioid abuse
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009548827
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015619525
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1004990770
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1425526594
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191637902
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' 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 texts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540563847
Thomas De Quincey was a prominent English essayist and journalist in the early 19th century. De Quincey's most famous work is Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which is considered one of the first works of addiction literature. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, which was published in 1821, is still widely read today
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486837123
A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). Like Confessions, these short essays combined drug-induced visions with thought-provoking reflections on the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. With these books, De Quincey inaugurated the genre of addiction literature, a tradition furthered by Charles Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, and a growing number of modern writers. Suspiria de Profundis continues to influence contemporary artists with the best known of its psychological fantasies, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow," which centers on myths related to the Roman goddess of childbirth and was the source for the classic 1977 horror film Suspiria and its 2018 remake.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0461395630
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : LCCN:56058018
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551114354
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.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 188?
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : OCLC:2624905
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129631121X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5CI9
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1094835617
Beginning with a discussion of Levana, the ancient Roman goddess of childbirth, De Quincey imagines three companions for her: Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789506440
"Opium! Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain!" A masterful memoir about addiction, Thomas De Quincey's Confessions is a literary tour-de-force and intimate portrayal of an opium eater's inner struggle. Written in poetic language that conveys the seductive power of the drug, this page-turning account pieces together an addict's highs and lows. It is both an imaginative description of opium-induced reverie and an urgent attempt to convey the dangers of dependency. The mind of an addict has never been captured so eloquently.