Autor Thomas de Quincey

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‘I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . ‘ The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a powerful nineteenth-century autobiography tracing Thomas De Quincey's journey of addiction, introduced by biographer, critic and academic Dr Frances Wilson.

A work, published in 1821, in which the author describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. Full of psychological insight and descriptive writing, it consists…