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Author : Grevel Lindop
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0297814044
The definitive biography of the extraordinary, brilliant and complex author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincy.
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297858607
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 : David Morrell
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316261388
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 : Read Books Ltd
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473375215
This vintage book contains Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographic account, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Within this volume, De Quincey describes his addiction to opium and explains, in great detail, the effects that it had on him and his life. It was his first major work, and one that brought him fame almost overnight. Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785 - 1859) was a seminal English essayist. Many antiquarian books like this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, and high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798637071838
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 : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830
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 : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552459780
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 : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781408840139
'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 : Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJWG9
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604246138
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1420946900
Thomas De Quincey, an English essayist during the turn of the nineteenth century, began life as a fairly sickly child, and would spend much of his life in the grips of one illness or another. Through a series of misguided attempts at getting an education, De Quincey dropped out of college and instead became a vagrant. The youth barely had enough food to eat and resorted to begging in order to survive. These years served as a depressing foundation for his later years, which were marred by isolation and solitude. After eventually returning to and graduating from university, De Quincey became a journalist and translator. His works gained little popularity. De Quiney's resulting depression crippled him, and the forlorn man turned to opium in order to escape from reality. The use quickly turned to abuse, though, which was the subject of De Quincey's most famous work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." The piece made him an overnight sensation as it detailed his personal background and spiraling drug abuse. De Quincey revised and republished the piece a number of times in order to address questions and criticisms that the population had about his portrayal of the addiction. This essay, along with three other works, are included in the collection "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings."
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684270482
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 : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798686759572
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 : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540509176
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) 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
