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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R214 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R50 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Reprinted From the First Edition, With Notes of De Quincey's Conversations by... Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Reprinted From the First Edition, With Notes of De Quincey's Conversations by Richard Woodhouse, and Otheradditons
Thomas De Quincey
R982 Discovery Miles 9 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings - Vol. 3 (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings - Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R1,746 R1,641 Discovery Miles 16 410 Save R105 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings - Vol. 3 (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Last Days of Immanuel Kant and Other Writings - Vol. 3 (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R2,265 R2,113 Discovery Miles 21 130 Save R152 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Suspiria de Profundis (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Suspiria de Profundis (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R96 R79 Discovery Miles 790 Save R17 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Autobiographical Sketches (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Autobiographical Sketches (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R867 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R158 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biographical Essays (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Biographical Essays (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R721 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R131 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Caesars (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey The Caesars (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R689 R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Save R127 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Esprios Classics) - Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar. (Paperback): Thomas De... Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Esprios Classics) - Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar. (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R600 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R115 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 1 - in large print: Thomas De Quincey Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 1 - in large print
Thomas De Quincey
R1,497 R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Save R81 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 1 - in large print: Thomas De Quincey Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 1 - in large print
Thomas De Quincey
R2,014 R1,886 Discovery Miles 18 860 Save R128 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 2 - in large print: Thomas De Quincey Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 2 - in large print
Thomas De Quincey
R1,500 R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Save R81 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 2 - in large print: Thomas De Quincey Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers; In Two Volumes - Volume 2 - in large print
Thomas De Quincey
R2,019 R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Save R129 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Paperback, New): Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Paperback, New)
Thomas De Quincey; Edited by Robert Morrison
R256 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R45 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Coleridge and Opium-Eating and other Writings (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Coleridge and Opium-Eating and other Writings (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R1,745 R1,640 Discovery Miles 16 400 Save R105 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coleridge and Opium-Eating and other Writings (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Coleridge and Opium-Eating and other Writings (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R2,264 R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Save R152 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Richard Bentley and other Writings (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Richard Bentley and other Writings (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R1,746 R1,641 Discovery Miles 16 410 Save R105 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Richard Bentley and other Writings (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Richard Bentley and other Writings (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R2,265 R2,113 Discovery Miles 21 130 Save R152 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Protestantism and other Essays (Paperback): Thomas De Quincey Protestantism and other Essays (Paperback)
Thomas De Quincey
R1,749 R1,645 Discovery Miles 16 450 Save R104 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Protestantism and other Essays (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Protestantism and other Essays (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R2,269 R2,117 Discovery Miles 21 170 Save R152 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Paperback, New ed.): Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Paperback, New ed.)
Thomas De Quincey; Edited by Barry Milligan
R190 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R26 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

‘Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!’

Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the ‘Church of Opium’. Thomas De Quincey consumed large daily quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings though London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven. Confessions forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary drug-users from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821, and reproduces the two ‘sequels’, ‘Suspiria De Profundis’ (1845) and ‘The English Mail-Coach’ (1849). It also includes a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict and the tradition of confessional literature, and an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century.

Last Days of Immanuel Kant (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Last Days of Immanuel Kant (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R2,264 R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Save R152 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - in large print (Hardcover): Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - in large print (Hardcover)
Thomas De Quincey
R1,566 R1,478 Discovery Miles 14 780 Save R88 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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