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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is …
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER
Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium. Part of the Macmillan …
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'In this …
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter.
Suspiria de Profundis
A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving …
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De …
Murha taiteenlajina
Murha taiteenlajina on estetismin ylistys ja sen yhtäaikainen parodia. Teos kuljettaa esteettisyyden vaatimuksen oudolle elämän - tai pikemminkin kuoleman - alueelle, murhan …
"De Bello Gallico" (Illustrated)
Caesar's Commentaries: de Bello Gallico
Caesar's Commentaries - De Bello Gallico - The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar Commentarii de Bello Gallico, also Bellum Gallicum, is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic …
Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, and Suspiria De Profundis. by Thomas De Quincey.
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary …