Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
| Author/creator | De Quincey, Thomas Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Open Road Integrated Media, LLC |
| Description | 120 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Summary | Annotation A timeless memoir of drug addiction from one of the leading intellectuals of the Victorian ageAt first, Thomas De Quincey found opium to be a harmless pleasure. A twenty-year-old intellectual living in nineteenth-century London, De Quincey took laudanum sparingly, spacing out his doses so their effect would not be dulled. But after years of casual use, intense stomach pains caused him to rely on the drug more and more, until he was taking opium daily, and living in a world divided between hallucinatory bliss and aching physical torment.De Quincey's account of his addiction made him a celebrity. His rhapsodies of hallucination influenced generations of authors, from Poe and Baudelaire to Jorge Luis Borges, and warned countless readers of the dangers of drug dependency. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781504033954 |
| ISBN | 1504033957 (E-Book) Forthcoming |
| Standard identifier# | 9781504033954 |
| Stock number | 01521375 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |