Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Book Info
Author
Thomas De Quincey
Word Count
20,000 words
based on page count
Pages
80 pages
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Edition Publisher
Dover Publications
Edition Publish Date
1995-09-28
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0486287424
ISBN-13: 9780486287423
Description
Impressive account — admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness — of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804, and his longterm involvement with the drug.
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