Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
'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, andexamines the powerf…
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Weitere Autoren: Morrison, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-163789-6
- EAN: 9780191637896
- Produktnummer: 14480316
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'538 KB
Über den Autor
Robert Morrison is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009). He has edited volumes of De Quincey's complete Works for Pickering and Chatto, and he is the editor of On Murder, a collection of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' and other writings for OWC. He has also co-edited with Chris BaldickPolidori's The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre for OWC.
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