Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) - download pdf or read online

By Thomas De Quincey

ISBN-10: 0140439013

ISBN-13: 9780140439014

During this striking autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took via London-and the nightmares, melancholy, and paranoia to which he grew to become prey-under the effect of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a hyperlink among inventive self-expression and dependancy, Confessions seamlessly weaves the consequences of gear and the character of desires, reminiscence, and mind's eye. First released in 1821, it cleared the path for later generations of literary drug clients, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and expected psychoanalysis with its insights into the unconscious.

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