Thomas De Quincey
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: being an extract from the Life of a Scholar / Thomas de Quincey
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..."
First published anonymously
...4) Shakspeare
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This long biographical essay on William Shakespeare was written for the Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th edition.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A timeless memoir of drug addiction from one of the leading intellectuals of the Victorian age At first, Thomas De Quincey found opium to be a harmless pleasure. A twenty-year-old intellectual living in nineteenth-century London, De Quincey took laudanum sparingly, spacing out his doses so their effect would not be dulled. But after years of casual use, intense stomach pains caused him to rely on the drug more and more, until he was taking opium daily,...