Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
de Thomas De Quincey
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Pasadena, California, United States
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The birth of a new genre
First book edition. Uncut in original boards with both the oft-missing half-title and advertising leaves. Rubbed and slightly chipped, excellently rebacked, upper joint neatly repaired, rear board loose. The pages are very fresh, just a few stray spots on some leaves and neat pencil underlining of some passages. A beautiful, Very Good copy and quite rare in boards. Housed in a super lovely custom clamshell case. Contemporary owner inscriptions and bookseller ticket situating the book in Cork, Ireland. Later, this copy made its way into the collection of heavy hitter, Alfred B. Perlman.
De Quincey experienced an amazingly tragic life filled with death, loneliness, and the full panoply of suffering, but unlike many others, it ultimately led him to great empathy. For a philosopher should not see with the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a catholic creature, and as standing in equal relation to high and low, to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent. (Confessions of an English Opium Eater)
His iconic text would go on to influence the likes of Poe, Dickens, and the Beat Generation.
"…he transformed our perception of drugs. De Quincey invented recreational drug-taking, not because he was the first to swallow opiates for non-medical reasons(he was hardly that), but because he was the first to commemorate his drug experience in a compelling narrative that was consciously aimed at and consumed by a broad commercial audience. Further, in knitting together intellectualism, unconventionality, drugs, and the city, De Quincey mapped in the counter-cultural figure of the bohemian. He was also the first flaneur, high and anonymous, graceful and detached, strolling through crowded urban sprawls trying to decipher the spectacles, faces, and memories that reside there. Most strikingly, as the self-proclaimed Pope of the true church on the subject of opium, he initiated the tradition of the literature of intoxication with his portrait of the addict as a young man. De Quincey is the first modern artist, at once prophet and exile, riven by a drug that both inspired and eviscerated him."(Robert Morrison)
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Sinopsis
Confessions of an English Opium-eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas de Quincey about his addiction to laudanum - a combination of opium and alcohol - and its effects. He first had it published anonymously in the London Magazine in 1821, but it was released as a book the following year.
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- Librería
- Anniroc Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 125
- Título
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
- Autor
- Thomas De Quincey
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Taylor and Hessey
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1822
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- THOMAS DE QUINCEY,CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, BRITISH, LONDON, ENGLAND, DRUGS, ADDICTION, LITERATURE, ROMANTIC, WORDSWORTH, AUSTEN, ELIOT, EUROPE, GINSBERG, KEROUAC, LSD, MARIJUANA, OPIUM, OPIOIDS, DICKENS, KEATS, BYRON, SHELLEY, IRELAND, CORK,
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