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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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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 and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classic Fiction
"I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater..." "I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night - nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or... of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." In an exami ...Show more
On Murder - Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Ser.
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
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