Confessions of an English Opium Eater by De Quincey, T

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by De Quincey, TISBN 9780140439014 Publisher: Penguin 2003 296 pages Soft cover Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the Church of Opium. Thomas De Quincey consumed large daily quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings though London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he

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