Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Thomas De Quincey

296 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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