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'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
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