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'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays &#
'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 masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. Confessions is a remarkable
Teksterne i denne bog er skrevet af en narkoman. Thomas De Quincey vandrede hele livet i et opiumfremkaldt tågeland mellem drøm og virkelighed. Hvor tid og sted ikke fandtes, hvor diabolske uhyrer huserede og groteske ansigter trængte sig ind på ham, hvor