Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Other Writings: Annotated Edition – Also includes The Pleasures of Opium, Introduction to the Pains of Opium and The Pains of Opium (Alma Classics) - Softcover

De, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1847497632 ISBN 13: 9781847497635

Verlag: Alma Ltd, 2018

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My heart trembled through from end to end... What a poet that man is! How he vivifies words, and deepens them, and gives them profound significance! -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater hauntingly evokes frightful scenes and phantasmagorical night-time wanderings, while reality, dream and memory blur and intertwine in a nebulous and protean haze. Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique "impassioned prose", is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece. Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique "impassioned prose" and, along with its sequel the `Suspiria de Profundis', is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece.

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• Verlag: Alma Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1847497632
• ISBN 13: 9781847497635
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208