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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
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"I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater..." "I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night - nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or... of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." In an exami ...Show more
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