Book Description
1928. Together with their sequels "The English Mail Coach" and "Suspiria de Profundis." Within this volume, De Quincey discusses his addiction to opium, how it began and how his life progressed while under the spell of this habit. At the close of his narrative, De Quincey present the reader with the moral of his narrative.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a central figure of English Romanticism. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, his best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction.

De Quincey lived his full three score years and ten. But few would have predicted it, for his father and numerous of his siblings were carried off by tuberculosis. He owed his survival to opium: its powers kept the disease at bay, but in trade it kept De Quincey its slave.