Confessions Of An English Opium Illustrated

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
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Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770481053

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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 : 148 pages
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Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798686759572

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Confessions of an English Opium Illustrated by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical E16account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798702576510

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Illustrated by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical E16account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798455091520

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Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : thomasDe Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798548876942

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Illustrated by thomasDe Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical E16account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Opium
ISBN : PSU:000065314326

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The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas De Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976592356

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Why buy our paperbacks? Expedited shipping High Quality Paper Made in USA Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater. First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 (he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache). It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence.Describing the general style of the Confessions, an English critic of the period wrote in the London Monthly Review: "They have an air of reality and life; and they exhibit such strong graphic powers as to throw an interest and even a dignity round a subject which in less able hands might have been rendered a tissue of trifles and absurdities."

Author : Thomas De Quincey,Blair Hughes-Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : OCLC:152550273

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Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684270482

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Confessions of an English Opium Annotated by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical E16account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798743318056

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective.Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey about his addiction to laudanum and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first great work published by De Quincey and the one that earned him fame almost overnight ..."First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition reviewed by De Quincey.As originally published, De Quincey's account was organized in two parts: Part I begins with a notice "To the reader", to establish the narrative framework:

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798690535438

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Confessions of an English Opium by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical E16account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1854772503

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Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361214643

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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIU by Thomas 1785-1859 De Quincey Pdf

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 : 85 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798637071838

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. It was criticized for presenting a too positive and too enticing picture of the opium experience to readers. And apparently, several English writers: Francis Thompson, James Thomson, William Blair, and perhaps Branwell Brontë -- were led to opium use and addiction by De Quincey's account.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Readhowyouwant
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1425060560

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Set in the backdrop of England, it is an autobiographical novel by De Quincey. He gives an account of the times when he was addicted to opium and had hallucinations under its influence. The narrative details how he was left desolate during the time he was an addict and his recovery from the turmoil. Engrossing!