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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 life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. 'The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing - the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworth's 'The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind '- and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western World's ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight and colourful descriptive writing, it surprised and fascinated De Quincey's contemporaries and has continued to exert its powerful and eccentric appeal ever since. AUTHOR: Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist remembered for his book 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'. Taking opium for the first time in 1804, to relieve a toothache, he continued to consume it for the rest of his life. Highly regarded during his lifetime, and into the twentieth century, subsequently his popularity declined until his tales of drug-induced visions found a new audience in the 1960s.… (mais)
de Quincey might confess, but he does not move me. Considered an important book for its day, "Confessions" is dated and boring. It does relate to times (1820s) when unrestricted addiction was openly available. What a waste. ( )
I have not finished this book yet, but I am reviewing it anyway. It has been torture, so I feel justified. It is less than 300 pages and it has taken me a week to get through about 200 of them. I kind of hate the book.
I was under the false assumption that this book would be about opium. It is really more about the writer justifying his use of opium. I guess back in the day, Colerige ousted him as having no good reason for taking opium. Unlike C. who had a perfectly good reason. Or something like that. So basically it was macho B.S. I found out very little about what opium did, whether it was socially acceptable, legal, illegal, how much it cost. Nothing. Boo. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
THE PAINS OF OPIUM As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. (Shelley's Revolt of Islam)
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER I have often been asked - how it was, and through what series of steps, that I became an opium-eater.
THE PLEASURES OF OPIUM It is very long since I first took opium; so long, that if it had been a trifling incident in my life, I might have forgotten its date, but cardinal events are not to be forgotten; and, from circumstances connected with it, I remember that this inauguration into the use of opium must be referred to the spring or to the autumn of 1804; during which seasons I was in London, having thither for the first time since my entrance at oxford.
THE PAINS OF OPIUM Reader , who have thusfar accompanied me, I must request your attention, before we go further, to a few explanatory notes.
THE DAUGHTER OF LEBANON Damaskus , first-born of cities, Om el Denia , mother of generations, that wast before Abraham, that wast before the Pyramids!
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includes essays "The Pleasures of Opium," "The Pains of Opium," and "The Daughter of Lebanon;" please do not combine with editions containing other combinations of essays or with "Confessions..." alone.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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 life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. 'The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing - the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworth's 'The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind '- and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western World's ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight and colourful descriptive writing, it surprised and fascinated De Quincey's contemporaries and has continued to exert its powerful and eccentric appeal ever since. AUTHOR: Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist remembered for his book 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'. Taking opium for the first time in 1804, to relieve a toothache, he continued to consume it for the rest of his life. Highly regarded during his lifetime, and into the twentieth century, subsequently his popularity declined until his tales of drug-induced visions found a new audience in the 1960s.
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