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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

First published 1821

Thomas De Quincey recounts the hardships of his youth, his first experiences with opium, and the pleasures and terrors that followed long use. Moving between autobiography, argument, urban wandering, and dream, the book examines memory, dependence, suffering, and the unstable life of the imagination.

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