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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater ( Opium-Eater ) IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, 1960, Everyman’s Library #223 ,Strange Bizarre & Fantastic Tale of De Quincey’s Struggle with Opium Habit. He tells of his Opium Dreams

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater ( Opium-Eater ) IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, 1960, Everyman’s Library #223 ,Strange Bizarre & Fantastic Tale of De Quincey’s Struggle with Opium Habit. He tells of his Opium Dreams

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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater ( Opium-Eater ) IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, 1960, Everyman’s Library #223 ,Strange Bizarre & Fantastic Tale of De Quincey’s Struggle with Opium Habit. He tells of his Opium Dreams

by Thomas DE Quincey , (1785-1859), INTRODUCTION BY JOHN E. JORDAN , Orange & WHITE Decorated Endpapers, and PGS content edges lightly Foxed

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HBDJ, 1960, 1ST EDITION THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, VG+/VG ,12 mo. 272 PGS, NOTES, BACK OF DJ A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA, larger format binding style 4. Full dark blue cloth-covered boards with copper-look spine titling and gilt "EL" in script at tail of spine; pale orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket with image of the author being offered a drink (laudanum?) by a young woman on front cover. --- An excellent copy: clean, unmarked and firmly bound but with small dampstain to top edge. Dust jacket with slight chafing along edges, otherwise bright and protected in removable archival mylar wrapper.; ,He tells of his Opium Dreams, of his experiences with Ann & his sensations under the Drug. Chilling account of an addicts descent into madness or nirvana depending on your outlook. De Quincey's fascinating insight into opium, begun due to an illness, quickly becoming a habit. This is the story of his experiences whilst taking the drug, the dreams and the struggle against it. In this work, he speaks candidly about his use of laudanum, a compound made from opium. At first, he enjoyed the "pleasures" of opium, but later suffered the "pains" in the form of insomnia, hallucinations and other negative physical symptoms.


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Confessions of an English Opium-eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas de Quincey about his addiction to laudanum - a combination of opium and alcohol - and its effects. He first had it published anonymously in the London Magazine in 1821, but it was released as a book the following year.

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