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title: "Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions: Biography)"
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# Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions: Biography)

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- **What is this?** Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions: Biography) by thomas de quincey
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## Customer Reviews

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    Godfather of addiction writing!
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018*

Difficult to read but still worth reading considering it's the godfather of addiction literature.

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    Concerning the 1995 Dover Thrift Edition
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2013*

Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater gives an insightful glimpse into the pleasures and pains of opium usage. In this brief yet intriguing work, he catalogues his encounters with the drug and its ensuing psychological effects. His complex syntax is immediately noticed, and although it often becomes unnecessarily lengthy and scattered (perhaps a product of both his time and excessive drug use), his flowery prose is truly among the most beautiful that I have ever read. Personally, I learned to enjoy many of the drawn-out sentences, eventually choosing to simply let my eyes and mind be dazzled rather than comprehend how the last fragment has anything to do with the first few lines.  Through this eloquently written account, the reader is easily led to empathize with and vicariously live out the heavenly euphorias initially found and the horrific phantasmagoria that later plagued his life. One of the things that amazed me about this book was that de Quincy continued to glamorize opium until the very end, even after his joys had left and his psyche damaged. I realize that this account was intended to detail one subject, but it would have been interesting to see how drug usage affected other facets of his life, such as his family, which is hardly mentioned. Overall, it's a very quick and fascinating read that I would suggest to any classic literature fan with a free afternoon.

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    Getting High 19th-century Style
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2012*

I am writing a biography of a major 19th-century figure who was addicted to laudanum; and I read this book to try to better understand the affect her addiction would have had on her mentally, physically, and psychologically. Although it did not answer all of my questions, I found it thoroughly engaging because of its vivid and very personal style -- and it made me want to want to read more of De Quincey's works.

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