A masterpiece of autobiography & perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey&s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures & pains of worshipping at the & Church of Opium& Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller) & this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions & hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London along with the nightmares despair & paranoia to which he became prey The result is a work in which the effects of drugs & the nature of dreams memory & imagination are seamlessly interwoven describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures & pains unique to opium Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression & addiction paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey & anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821 & reproduces two &sequels& & Suspiria de Profundis& (1845) & & The English Mail-Coach& (1849) It also

Includes:: a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict & the tradition of confessional literature & an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) studied at Oxford failing to take his degree but discovering opium He later met Coleridge Southey & the Wordsworths From 1828 until his death he lived in Edinburgh & made his living from journalism If you enjoyed Confessions of an English Opium-Eater you might like William S Burroughs& Junky available in Penguin Modern Classics & De Quincey was one of the first great autobiographers& Jonathan Bate

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