Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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- 1822
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01 - To the Reader
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02 - "These preliminary confessions..."
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03 - "So blended and intertwisted..."
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04 - "Soon after this I contrived..."
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05 - "Soon after the period of the last..."
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06 - "I dally with my subject..."
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07 - "So then, Oxford Street..."
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08 - "And therefore, worthy doctors..."
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09 - "The late Duke of --- used to..."
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10 - "Courteous, and I hope indulgent..."
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11 - "If any man, poor or rich..."
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12 - "As when some great painter..."
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13 - "I have thus described and illustrated..."
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14 - "Many years ago when I was..."
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15 - June 1819
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16 - Appendix: December 1822
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) is a public domain work.
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About this book
In this pioneering memoir of addiction, De Quincey recounts his youthful sufferings, his wanderings through the streets of London, and his descent into opium dependence, describing with hypnotic eloquence both the drug's dreamlike ecstasies and its nightmarish torments. Blending confession, philosophy, and hallucinatory prose-poetry, it opened a new frontier in autobiographical writing and influenced generations of writers on consciousness, dreams, and the mind's dark places. Beautiful, harrowing, and strangely modern, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a classic of Romantic literature and one of the first great works about drugs and the self. Its shimmering, feverish prose has lost none of its power to enthrall.
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Book facts
- Author
- Thomas De Quincey
- First published
- 1822
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 99
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Martin Geeson