by Thomas De Quincey · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141043890
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«Confessions of an English Opium Eater» is the autobiography of Thomas De Quincey, published by Penguin in paperback (128 pages, in English).
A true account in which the author describes his daily use of laudanum and its effects: initial pleasure, insomnia, hallucinations and increasingly disturbing nightmares. De Quincey analyses how addiction connects with literary creation, and his narrative paved the way for writers such as Baudelaire and Burroughs.
Work originally published in 1821; this edition belongs to the Penguin Great Ideas series.
For readers of memoirs and literary essays interested in a nineteenth-century classic about the experience of addiction.
