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Length3h 51m
About this audiobook
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 describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length3 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6INTRODUCTION TO THE PAINS OF OPIUM
2TO THE READER
7THE PAINS OF OPIUM
3PRELIMINARY CONFESSIONS
8May 1818
4PART II
9June 1819
5THE PLEASURES OF OPIUM
10APPENDIX
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