Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.
Teksterne i denne bog er skrevet af en narkoman. Thomas De Quincey vandrede hele livet i et opiumfremkaldt tågeland mellem... Læs mere
Teksterne i denne bog er skrevet af en narkoman. Thomas De Quincey vandrede hele livet i et opiumfremkaldt tågeland mellem... Læs mere
Immanuel Kants sidste dage er Thomas De Quinceys berygtede portræt af den store tyske filosofs liv og levned. De daglige rutiners monotoni er humoristiske bravurnumre og varmer... Læs mere
Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious... Læs mere
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter.
Famed for his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater, De Quincey extended his sensational accounts of drug addiction with the brief essays of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths).
Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal... Læs mere
Chi non è curioso di scavare nelle allucinazioni, in quei sogni psicotropi dove panico e orrore assumono la forma di quel che non vogliamo vedere? O di scoprire le... Læs mere
"Jeg præsenterer dig her, kære læser, for en beretning om en bemærkelsesværdig periode i mit liv". Sådan begynder den britiske forfatter Thomas de Quincy beretningen om sit... Læs mere