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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Confessions of an English Opium Eater Monday, October 5 2009.
- TO THE READER.-I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove, not merely an interesting record, but, in a considerable degree, useful and instructive.
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Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to combine 4 books, including Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Monday, October 5 2009.
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Daniel Z submitted a request to combine 4 books, including Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Monday, October 5 2009.
Timothy Gray approved this request.( see all changes to this book | see Daniel Z’s edits | report abuse ) -
Shelfari edited the description of Confessions of an English Opium Eater Saturday, August 1 2009.
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Confessions of an English Opium Eater Thursday, July 23 2009.
- Added a contributor: Thomas De Quincey: (Primary Author)
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