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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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, Confessi ...Show more
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