Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0460012231 ISBN 13: 9780460012232

Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

First published anonymously in 1821 as Thomas De Quincey takes us on a surreal trip as his journey through London. As the terror of the drug laudanum soon griped hold of Quincey as it slips into his dreams.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author’s most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period’s central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense “pleasures” and harrowing “pains” of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Confessions is only one part of a larger confessional project conceived by De Quincey over the course of his writing career. Gathered together in this edition, these texts provide a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth-century British aesthetic, medical, psychological, political, philosophical, social, racial, national, and imperialist attitudes.

This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.

About the Author:

Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0460012231
• ISBN 13: 9780460012232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1