Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

352 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly ...

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