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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English OpiumEater
Author: Thomas de Quincey
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Conf...  more »
ISBN: 340019
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Fascinating pioneering study of the operation of the subconscious mind in dreams.


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