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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
By Thomas De Quincey
Length3h 55m
About this audiobook
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" is an autobiographical narrative by English author Thomas De Quincey. First published in The London Magazine in two parts in 1821, then as a book, with an appendix, in 1822.
De Quincey’s rather majestic, classically learned and singular style inspires every page of his writing. His "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" guarantees him a place in this series as a writer whose life and writing were equally expressive of an unquenchable originality of thought and behaviour. The highly poetic and imaginative prose of the Confessions makes it one of the enduring stylistic masterpieces of English literature.
The avowed purpose of the first version of "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" was to warn the reader of the dangers of opium, and it combined the interest of a journalistic exposé of a social evil, told from an addict’s point of view, with a somewhat contradictory and seductive picture of the subjective pleasures of drug addiction. The book begins with an autobiographical account of the author’s addiction. It then describes in effective detail the euphoric and highly symbolic reveries that he experienced under the drug’s influence and recounts the horrible nightmares that continued use of the drug eventually produced.
Athough De Quincey ends his narrative at a point at which he is drug-free, he remained an opium addict for the rest of his life. In 1856 he rewrote "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" and added descriptions of opium-inspired dreams.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (18.6K)
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GenreSelf-Help, Biography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length3 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1To the Reader
4Introduction to the Pains of Opium
2Preliminary Confessions
5The Pains of Opium
3The Pleasures of Opium
6Appendix
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