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De Quincey, Tho Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift (Paperback)

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    Publication Name
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift Editions)
    Title
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Dover Thrift Editions)
    Release Year
    2000
    Release Date
    01/02/2000
    EAN
    9780486287423
    ISBN-10
    0486287424
    ISBN
    9780486287423
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    US
    Item Length
    131mm
    Genre
    Fiction
    Series
    Thrift Editions
    UPC
    9780486287423
    Publication Year
    2000
    Format
    Paperback
    Language
    English
    Book Title
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Item Height
    210mm
    Author
    De Quincey, Thomas
    Publisher
    Dover Publications Inc.
    Topic
    Books
    Item Width
    131mm
    Item Weight
    70g
    Number of Pages
    80 Pages

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    Impressive account of the author's early years as a precocious student, his adventures among the outcasts of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug. Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas de Quincey (1785 1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater. First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 (he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache). It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence. Describing the general style of the Confessions, an English critic of the period wrote in the London Monthly Review: They have an air of reality and life; and they exhibit such strong graphic powers as to throw an interest and even a dignity round a subject which in less able hands might have been rendered a tissue of trifles and absurdities. In later years, De Quincey revised and expanded the first edition of the Confessions into a much longer, more verbose work which lacked the readable intensity of the original. The present edition reprints the first version, generally considered more impressive, and admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness.

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    Publisher
    Dover Publications Inc.
    ISBN-13
    9780486287423
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    95542428

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    Book Title
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Author
    De Quincey, Thomas
    Format
    Paperback
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Books
    Publication Year
    2000
    Number of Pages
    80 Pages

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    Item Height
    210mm
    Item Width
    131mm
    Item Weight
    70g

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    De Quincey, Thomas
    Series Title
    Thrift Editions
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United States

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