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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
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
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later lif ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 4
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e ...Show more
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