Thomas De Quincey: 104 books

Su intención al escribir las Confesiones no fue tanto narrar los efectos de esta droga como exponer sus influencias en una mente, la suya, que se sabía privilegiada, dotada de facultades poco usuales.

En la segunda mitad del siglo xviii tuvo lugar a través de las inmensas estepas asiáticas la gran huida de los tártaros calmucos desde Rusia hasta las fronteras de la China.

Su intención al escribir las Confesiones no fue tanto narrar los efectos de esta droga como exponer sus influencias en una mente, la suya, que se sabía privilegiada, dotada de facultades poco usuales.

This 1909 collection by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater includes his famous essay “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth,” plus writings on rhetoric, style and language, literary theory, Pope, Milton, Wordsworth, Lamb, and others.

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams....

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). In 1821, he went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences,...

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) was a British writer, journalist and essayist known today as one of the most original of his time. In this work, the author narrates and interprets, according to his own vision, the vicissitudes of the heroine and revolutionary Joan of Arc , attributing to her   a...

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'.

 In his landmark study The Caesars, Thomas de Quincey traces the rise and fall of Rome's first emperors.

"He was a man of very extraordinary genius. He has generally been treated by those who have spoken of him in print as a madman. But this is a mistake and must have been founded chiefly on the titles of his books. He was a man of fervid mind and of sublime aspirations: but he was no madman; or,...

Thomas De Quincey's lively and controversial memoirs of his friends, the 'lake poets' William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were controversial in their day for their candid and sometimes unflattering portraits of these great artists. The book remains one of the most fascinating...

Los dos ensayos –"Conversación" y "Estilo"– que forman este Escritos literarios de un opiómano inglés son una deliciosa muestra, al más puro estilo quinceyniano, de una de las facetas menos frecuentadas del autor de Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes,...

e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...

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