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Автор: Thomas De Quincey Название: Confessions of an English Opium Eater ISBN: 0140439013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140439014 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the `Church of Opium`. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author`s surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey.
Автор: Thomas De Quincey Название: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts ISBN: 0141397888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141397887 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 264.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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`.
Автор: De Quincey Thomas Название: Suspiria de Profundis and Other Writings ISBN: 1420940554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420940558 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1470.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thomas De Quincey was an English author during the Romantic movement, associating with writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Best known for his command of the psychological fantasy story, De Quincey produced stories of the curious and obscure, but always with the traditional Romantic emphasis on feeling. His masterwork, "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" (1821), stemmed from his own laudanum addiction, and was followed by "Suspiria de Profundis", a collection of essays which continued to capture the same dark brilliance as in "Confessions". The collection was originally published in fragmentary form, and remained unfinished upon De Quincey's death in 1859. This edition includes "The Affliction of Childhood," a reflection on the death of the author's two sisters in childhood, "Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow," one of his best-known works about the Roman goddess of childbirth, and "The English Mail-Coach," on the "grandeur and power" of the English mail-coach system.
Автор: Wilson Frances Название: Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey ISBN: 0374167303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374167301 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016
Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life, and by the idea of sudden death. Running away from school to pursue the two poets, De Quincey insinuated himself into their world. Basing his sensibility on Wordsworth's and his character on Coleridge's, he forged a triangle of unusual psychological complexity.
Aged twenty-four, De Quincey replaced Wordsworth as the tenant of Dove Cottage, the poet's former residence in Grasmere. In this idyllic spot he followed the reports of the notorious Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811, when two families, including a baby, were butchered in their own homes. In his opium-soaked imagination the murderer became a poet while the poet became a murderer. Embedded in On Murder as One of the Fine Arts, De Quincey's brilliant series of essays, Frances Wilson finds the startling story of his relationships with Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Opium was the making of De Quincey, allowing him to dissolve self-conflict, eliminate self-recrimination, and divest himself of guilt. Opium also allowed him to write, and under the pseudonym "The Opium-Eater" De Quincey emerged as the strangest and most original journalist of his age. His influence has been considerable. Poe became his double; Dostoevsky went into exile with Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in his pocket; and Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Alfred Hitchcock, and Vladimir Nabokov were all De Quincey devotees.
There have been other biographies of Thomas De Quincey, but Guilty Thing is the first to be animated by the spirit of De Quincey himself. Following the growth of his obsessions from seed to full flowering and tracing the ways they intertwined, Frances Wilson finds the master key to De Quincey's vast Piranesian mind. Unraveling a tale of hero worship and revenge, Guilty Thing brings the last of the Romantics roaring back to life and firmly establishes Wilson as one of our foremost contemporary biographers.
Автор: Bordo Phyllis Название: Quincey Loves Lilly Esther Forever ISBN: 168401879X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684018796 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Have you ever had a special pet you love to the moon and back? Quincey the Chinese crested dog is Lilly Esther's best friend. His big ears and even bigger heart have always cheered her up and helped her conquer her fears. So, she is terribly sad when he passes away. Can Lilly Esther learn how to remember and celebrate Quincey after he is gone?
Автор: Heatley Taft Quincey Название: God Is the Goal: The Chase for Intimacy with God ISBN: 1491732377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781491732373 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
