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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 visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey.
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Confessions of an English opium eater, Alethea Hayter, Thomas De Quincey
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- Released
- 1986
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alethea Hayter, Thomas De Quincey
- Publisher
- penguin Books
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 014043061x
- ISBN13
- 9780140430615
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Opinion Journalism & Essays, 19th century, English Literature, Drugs, Drug Addicts, Opium
- First published
- 1821
- Original title
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Rating
- 3.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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 visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey.