Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.
At a glance
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is one of the founding texts of addiction…
Thomas De Quincey turns private experience into performance, analysis, and dream…
Why read it now?
The book matters not only because it documents opium use, but because it reveals how…