Thomas De Quincey: 104 books
by Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
THOMAS De QUINCEY (1785 –1859) was an English essayist. His account of his opiated experiences has left an indelible print on the literature of addiction. Chiefly remembered today for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821); the De Quincey oeuvre includes literary criticism, poetry, and...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..."...
by Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but...
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts: And Other Writings
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Take a look at the entertainment landscape today -- the most popular books, movies, and television shows all revolve around murder and its dissection by brilliant investigators. Renowned British essayist Thomas de Quincey stumbled on this truth early in the nineteenth century, prompting him to pen...
by Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
An engrossing collection of autobiographical vignettes by Thomas De Quincey, whose 1821 account of his opium addiction garnered him enormous fame. His sickly childhood, education, wanderings around Britain, lifelong struggle with debt, and subsequent writing career are all recollected in De Quincey’s elegant prose.
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.
A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado....
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2015
« Et moi, scélérat que je suis, j’ai, comme chacun sait, reçu des fées un charme contre la douleur ; si j’ai adopté l’opium, c’est par un penchant abominable pour la recherche aventureuse de la volupté, et j’ai pêché...
Harvard Classics Volume 27
English Essays: Sidney To Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise...
by Thomas de Quincey
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
El propio Thomas de Quincey escribió su autobiografía en tres entregas, Confesiones de un inglés comedor de opio(Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821, traducido a veces como Confesiones de un opiómano inglés o Confesiones de un opiófago inglés),...