Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML: You won't be able to put down this gripping first-hand account of opium addiction that shocked England after its initial publication in 1821. Thomas De Quincy was a renowned author and intellectual who fell prey to a laudanum addiction as a young man, and who later recounted his experiences in excruciating detail in a series of anonymously published magazine serials. This important early work provides a fascinating glimpse into the processes of drug addiction..
Publication
Harmondsworth [Eng.] Penguin, 1971.
ISBN
014043061X / 9780140430615
Pages
227
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1821