De Quincey S Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
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 : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097038095

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

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041803972

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Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191637896

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

'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 : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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

A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020856429

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

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Opium abuse
ISBN : OCLC:7163849

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

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 1785-1859 De Quincey
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361215062

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

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Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798553154615

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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 : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846373633

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Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798623507365

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Annotated) by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-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 It was released as a book 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: "Here I present you, polite reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life ... ", followed by the substance of Part I, Preliminary Confessions, dedicated to the author's childhood and youth, and focused on the emotional and psychological factors that underlie subsequent experiences with opium, especially the period in his teens that De Quincey spent as a homeless fugitive on Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.Part II is divided into several sections: A relatively brief introduction and a connecting passage, followed by The Pleasures of Opium, which analyzes the early and largely positive phase of the author's experience with the drug, from 1804 to 1812; Introduction to the Dolores del Opio, which offers a second installment of autobiography, taking De Quincey from youth to maturity.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : George Armstrong Wauchope,Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020012315

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De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by George Armstrong Wauchope,Thomas de Quincey Pdf

A hauntingly personal and intimate portrayal of drug addiction, Thomas De Quincey's work is a masterpiece of 19th century literature. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater takes readers through his experiences with the drug and the profound effect it had on his life. 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.