Confessions of An Opium Eater
- 作者:Thomas De Quincy
- 出版社:HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS UK
- 出版日期:2012-09-13
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0007920652
- ISBN13:9780007920655
- 裝訂:平裝 / 224頁 / 11.1 x 17.8 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
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‘I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . ‘
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of opium addiction in captivating prose. The result is by turns
enlightened, nightmarish and witty – a faithful mirror of the drug itself.