The Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681770338

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The English Opium-Eater by Robert Morrison Pdf

A masterful biography of England's most notorious literary figure. Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods— including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a topical figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison’s biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770481053

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

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 : David Morrell
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316261388

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The Opium-Eater by David Morrell Pdf

From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath. Thomas De Quincey -- the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead -- was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six children were trapped in the mountains of England's Lake District. Even more gripping is what happened after. This is the true tale of how Thomas De Quincey became the Opium-Eater, brought to life by award-winning storyteller David Morrell. An afterword contains numerous photographs of the dramatic locations in the story.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4713542

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The English mail coach by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830

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The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum Pdf

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781408840139

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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson Pdf

'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet's former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts.De Quincey may never have felt the equal of the giants of the Romantic Literature he so worshipped but the writing style he pioneered - scripted and sculptured emotional memoir - was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography.This spectacular biography, the produce of meticulous scholarship and beautifully supple prose, tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run, and both brings De Quincey and his martyred but wild soul triumphantly to life and firmly establishes Frances Wilson in the front rank of contemporary biographers.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191637902

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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 : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : 47,7 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 : DigiCat
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547021377

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On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486146935

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The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince Pdf

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Independently Published
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798692894151

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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 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..."