Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
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De Quincey, T. (2019). Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. [United States], Otbebookpublishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)De Quincey, Thomas. 2019. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. [United States], Otbebookpublishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)De Quincey, Thomas, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. [United States], Otbebookpublishing, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. [United States], Otbebookpublishing, 2019.
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