Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas de Quincey
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 110
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Author: Thomas de Quincey
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author: Frances Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1408839768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2016** **New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and Guardian Best Books of 2016** 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' The last of the Romantics, Thomas De Quincey is a name synonymous with scandal. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the latter's former cottage and turned it into an opium den. Here, in the throes of his high, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and wrote the notorious and fascinatingly strange essay 'On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts'. Despite never achieving the literary deification of his contemporaries, his narrative style – scripted and sculptured emotional memoir – was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography. Guilty Thing tells the riches-to-rags story of a dazzlingly complex and troubled figure, whose life was lived on the run, and affords De Quincey the literary biography he deserves.
Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1000743306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 376
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1000749738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the second part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Author: Alina Clej
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995-08-01
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0804780765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge.
Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-07
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1040246974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the second part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0141397896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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 every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1000749681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.