Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

De Quincey, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140622578 ISBN 13: 9780140622577

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1997

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Confessions of an English Opium-eater (Penguin Popular Classics). Quincey, Thomas de. Penguin Books Ltd, 1997

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Reseña del editor:

Thomas De Quincey was charming, highly gifted, and something of a fugitive from society. His thirty perilous years of drug addiction both eased his considerable social anxieties and created new, devastating mental and physical torments. He fought a constant and bitter struggle against the incapacity and torpor that opium - then as readily available as aspirin - incurred, an agonising conflict that is at the heart of his Confessions.

Biografía del autor:

Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859) was born in Manchester. A brilliant scholar, he ran away from home and wandered through Wales and London, leading an impoverished life. He went to Oxford University in 1804, and though he failed to take a degree, hestarted his formative correspondence with Wordsworth and his opium addiction. Family demands and a depleted fortune compelled him to turn to journalism for his living. Confessions of an English Opium Eater was published in 1822.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140622578
• ISBN 13: 9780140622577
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272