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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth 174 x 110 mm 222 pages Cloth Paper |
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 1822 The Confessions appeared in 1821, in the London Magazine, followed in the next year by publication in book form. De Quincey was thirty-six. It was his first significant published work and enormously successful. Today it seems not merely a masterpiece but a very modern work, touching on matter - drugs, dreams, childhood traumas, the workings of the mind - which have a permanent relevance. Cloth £42 $70 Paperback £21 $35
I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paraquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas: and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed...I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at... |
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