Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings by Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

352 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir reflective slow-paced
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A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan.Confessions is a remarka...

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