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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
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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
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecst ...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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