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1859 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater de Quincey Alcohol & Drug Addiction

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1859 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater de Quincey Alcohol & Drug Addiction

â€œSurely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four oclock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”

â€• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

â€œConfessions of an Opium Eater” was a popular 19th-century book on drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. The book includes sections dealing with the consequences and pains that come with abusing drugs, such as opium. It was Thomas de Quinceys most famous book and helped him rise to prominence as an author.

Item number: #19381

Price: $499

QUINCEY, Thomas de

Confessions of an English opium-eater; and, Suspiria de profundis

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

XIII, [14]-288

Provenance: Handwritten

H. F. Fullerton

George Fass, 1926

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; secure

Cloth

Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)

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