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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Dover Thrift Author:Thomas De Quincey Notes: "An unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the text ... as originally published in the London magazine, September and October, 1821;" with a new introduction and explanatory footnotes. — Impressive account -- admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness -- of author?s early years as a precocious student of... more » 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.« less