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

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

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.

De Quincey, Thomas: -

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was born in Manchester, England, the son of a textile merchant. After his father's early death, he was sent away to school, but he ran away to wander in North Wales and London. He later attended Oxford where he befriended Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The success of his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater launched him in a career as an essayist and critic. De Quincey's work was widely admired, but he spent much of his life in poverty and debt until the last decade of his life.

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ISBN 13	9780192836540
ISBN 10	0192836544
Title	The Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Author	Thomas De Quincey
Series	Oxford World's Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1998-10-01
Number of pages	304
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