ID: 197
Reference: DE QUINCEY, Thomas, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Oxford, 10 (1822)
Type de Bibliographie: Book
Type de Texte: Field material
Auteurs: DE QUINCEY, Thomas
Titre: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Année: 1822
Date of use publication: 1998
Publisher: 10
Place publication: Oxford
Language: English
Résumé: In this autobiography, Thomas De Quincey relates how he became an opium-addict so as to cure his physical sufferings.and how his childhood and youthful experiences have been transformed, under the influence of opium, into symbolical dreams. The euphoric reveries of the early stage of his addiction turn in the later stages into appaling nigthmares such as these “ Awful Asiatic scenes ”.
Note: The first edition was printed in 1822, and an elarged version was publisehd in 1856.

Related Textual (1)

1  Title: Awful Asiatic scenes
    Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
    Internal_Type: OCR
    Note(s):  pp.72-75

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