The Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Other Writings

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199600618

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

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191605802

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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey's personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis blends autobiography and philosophical speculation into a series of dazzling prose-poems which explore the mysteries of time, memory, and suffering. 'The English Mail-Coach' develops a richly apocalyptic vision which sets nineteenth-century England's political and imperial grandeur against the suffering and loss of innocence which it entails. This selection presents De Quincey's major works in their original uncut and unrevised versions, which in some cases have not been available for many years.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 48,7 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

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 : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297858607

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The English Opium-Eater by Robert Morrison Pdf

Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and 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 essayist, critic and biographer.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 054399628X

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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Essays by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Macmillan and Co., ltd. in London, 1906.

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:B000780745

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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 : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4713542

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The English mail coach by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1854772503

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

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552459780

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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.