Confessions of an English Opium-eater (Popular Classics)

Two-Hour Biography & Memoir Short Reads

Author: Thomas De Quincey

In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions & hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took thru London–& the nightmares, despair & paranoia to which he became prey–under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression & addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects….Read More
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