Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

by Thomas De Quincey

Overview

You won't be able to put down this gripping first-hand account of opium addiction that shocked England after its initial publication in 1821. Thomas De Quincy was a renowned author and intellectual who fell prey to a laudanum addiction as a young man, and who later recounted his experiences in excruciating detail in a series of anonymously published magazine serials. This important early work provides a fascinating glimpse into the processes of drug addiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775414629
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	181 KB

About the Author

Thomas De Quincey was born August 15, 1785 and he died December 8, 1859. He was primarily known as an essayist, though his memoir of his addiction to laudanum (opium and alcohol), Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains his best-known work.

His essays "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" were well regarded, and the third essay, in which he dramatized the series of 1811 murders in Ratcliffe Highway, London, essentially created the True Crime genre.

His work influenced many later writers from Edgar Allan Poe right up to David Morrell.