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Confessions of an English Opium Eater eBooks
By: Thomas De Quincey ~ Editor: Alethea Hayter
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater Summary
| His thirty perilous years of drug addiction both eased his considerable social anxieties and created new, devastating mental and physical torments. Throughout this time he fought a constant and bitter struggle against the incapacity and torpor that opium-then as readily available as aspirin-incurred. De Quincey's powerful evocation of this drug-induced experience gives a fearful insight into the degeneration of a brilliant mind. |
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| "An unforgettable account of the pleasures and pains of worshiping at the "Church of Opium"" In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious." |
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