Suspira de Profundis, Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey

Suspira de Profundis, Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater

Thomas De Quincey

280 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly ...

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