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The Note Book Of An English Opium-Eater

The Note Book Of An English Opium-Eater

de Quincey, Thomas

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ISBN10: 9354506062
ISBN13: 9789354506062
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One mind, two worlds: daylight reason and nocturnal terror. And then the dreams begin. In The Note Book Of An English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey turns lived experience into a literary memoir of startling intimacy, blending the candour of an opium addiction narrative with the precision of an autobiographical literary essay. Moving between memory, sensation, and moral self-scrutiny, he charts laudanum and opium use as both remedy and ruin, and records the resulting dream visions and nightmares with a reporter's eye and a poet's nerve. Written in the climate of nineteenth century England and threaded with the energies of British Romantic literature, these pages stand beside confessions of an opium-eater as a defining testimony of the age: a work that helped expand what personal prose could dare to describe. Readers of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle will recognise the era's fascination with imagination, guilt, and the sublime, yet De Quincey's voice remains singular - urbane, restless, and disarmingly honest. Its daring inward gaze foreshadows modern memoir and addiction writing, and remains a touchstone for readers of the uncanny. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Ideal for a college literature study, a personal library, or an annotated classic edition shelf, it is equally compelling as late-night reading and as a cornerstone for any complete works collection of De Quincey and his contemporaries.

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