Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Alma Classics)

An excellent edition of De Quincy; the introduction is superb.

Enjoying reading this more at 40 then I did at 20

This is a part-autobiography and part stream of consciousness. Engrossing and at times impossible to decipher fact from fantasy in deQuincey's addled brain.

This is a great version of DeQuincey's opium memoir. The editor's introduction and notes by each work included in the book emphasize DeQuincey's original, unrevised writings. He offers a useful frame of mind and reference from which reading DeQuincey's, often erratic, writing makes sense. I would recommend this edition for a critical reading course on 19th century English literature/authors.

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