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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Great Ideas: Confessions of an English Opium Eater by DE QUINCEY THOMAS
11.99 NZD
12.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later gen ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic by Thomas De Quincey
2.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 4 | Reading Level: very good
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e ...Show more
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