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OverviewIn 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. Opium! De Quincey wrote. Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning a sound it was at that time! Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. The Confessions involve the listener in De Quincey's childhood and schooling, describing in detail his flight at age sixteen from Manchester Grammar School, his wanderings in North Wales and London, and his experiences with opium, which developed into a lifelong dependency. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas De Quincey , Thomas Whitworth , Thomas WhitworthPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.00cm Weight: 0.109kg ISBN: 9780786184132ISBN 10: 0786184132 Publication Date: 01 August 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was born in Manchester, England, the son of a textile merchant. After his father's early death, he was sent away to school, but he ran away to wander in North Wales and London. He later attended Oxford where he befriended Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The success of his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater launched him in a career as an essayist and critic. De Quincey's work was widely admired, but he spent much of his life in poverty and debt until the last decade of his life. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |