De Quincey, Thomas

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

This selection of De Quincey's writings includes the title piece--his most famous work--as well as "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," "The English Mail-Coach," and the Suspiria de Profundis.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)

In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

"I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive." So begins "The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Originally published in two parts in the "London Magazine" in 1821, it is a gripping account of one Englishman's addiction to opium. Thomas De Quincey details the effects of his opium use and in so doing warns the reader of the dangers and terrors of serious drug addiction.

On Murder (Oxford World's Classics)

The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the art of murder and its perfections. This volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," and his finest tale of terror, "The Avenger," a disturbing exploration of violence, vigilantism, and religious persecution. Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage and brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary and aesthetic criticism, these essays had a remarkable impact on crime, terror, and detective fiction. They are also a key contribution to the satiric tradition, as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence. The bibliography is the most extensive available on critical responses to De Quincey's essays on murder and violence, and the essays included here have never been annotated so thoroughly before. They reveal--often for the first time--De Quincey's debts, remarkable erudition, and encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary crime.

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey Volume 1: With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

DE QUINCEYÂ’S style is superb his powers of reasoning unsurpassed his imagination is warm and brilliant and his humour both masculine and delicate.

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis

The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Walking Stewart; the Marquess Wellesley; Schlosser's Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes

Londres. Principios del siglo XIX. Una sociedad de admiradores del asesinato, se reune cada vez que se produce un homicidio "interesante", para analizarlo, pero no desde un punto de vista juridico o moral, sino estetico. El asesinato sin compasion de toda un afamilia, sirve para que, mediante una novela, dos jovenes asesinos sean compadecidos e incluso admirados por los lectores.