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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Artikel-Nr:
9780199600618
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.02.2013
Seiten:
332
Autor:
Thomas De Quincey
Gewicht:
267 g
Format:
195x131x23 mm
Serie:
Oxford World's Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert Morrison is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009). He has edited volumes of De Quincey's complete Works for Pickering and Chatto, and he is the editor of On Murder, a collection of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' and other writings for OWC. He has also co-edited with Chris Baldick Polidori's The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre for OWC.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.
Introduction