The Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar, De Quincey Thomas, Beatty Arthur

Автор: Beatty Paul
Название: Sellout
ISBN: 1786071460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786071460
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Описание: Winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award

Автор: Thomas De Quincey
Название: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
ISBN: 0141397888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141397887
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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
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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: Quincey Thomas de
Название: Autobiographical Sketches (Esprios Classics)
ISBN: 1715720679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781715720674
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Описание: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. In 1821, he went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences, which that year appeared in the London Magazine. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb's Essays of Elia, which were then appearing in the same periodical. He maintained himself by contributing to various magazines. His other works include: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823), Walladmor (1825), Biographical Essays (1851), Autobiographical Sketches (1853), Romances and Extravaganzas (1877), and Collected Writings (1889).