Confessions of an English Opium Eater and other writings

Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey’s legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Imprint: Penguin UK
Publication date: 28/06/2010
Series: Popular Penguins