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'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 every philosopher over the past
two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man
calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest
assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black
Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black
Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin
Classics, with books from around the world and across many
centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London
to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to
16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories
lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and
inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and
an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin
Classics.
'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.
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