Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium Eater written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Gottfried & Fritz. This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Download or read book Guilty Thing written by Frances Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet's former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts.De Quincey may never have felt the equal of the giants of the Romantic Literature he so worshipped but the writing style he pioneered - scripted and sculptured emotional memoir - was to inspire generations of writers: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf. James Joyce knew whole pages of his work off by heart and he was arguably the father of what we now call psychogeography.This spectacular biography, the produce of meticulous scholarship and beautifully supple prose, tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run, and both brings De Quincey and his martyred but wild soul triumphantly to life and firmly establishes Frances Wilson in the front rank of contemporary biographers.
Download or read book Suspiria de Profundis written by Thomas De Quincey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Download or read book Last days of Immanuel Kant written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Opium Eater written by Robert Morrison and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer. Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle - have long placed him at the centre of 19th-century literary studies. De Quincey also stands at the meeting point in the culture wars between Edinburgh and London; between high art and popular taste; and between the devotees of the Romantic imagination and those of hack journalism. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected essayist, critic and biographer.
Download or read book The English mail coach written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts written by Thomas de Quincey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!
Download or read book Ann of Oxford Street written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opium Eater written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath. Thomas De Quincey -- the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead -- was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six children were trapped in the mountains of England's Lake District. Even more gripping is what happened after. This is the true tale of how Thomas De Quincey became the Opium-Eater, brought to life by award-winning storyteller David Morrell. An afterword contains numerous photographs of the dramatic locations in the story.
Download or read book The Note Book of an English Opium eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1855.. This book was released on 1855 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Klosterheim written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Thomas De Quincey Part I Vol 1 written by Grevel Lindop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Download or read book Murder as a Fine Art written by David Morrell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
Download or read book A Diary of Thomas de Quincey 1803 written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Download or read book Autobiographic Sketches written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Ancient History and Antiquities written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruler of the Night written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy. 1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole day's journey can now be covered in a matter of hours. People marvel at their new freedom. But train travel brings new dangers as well, with England's first death by train recorded on the very first day of railway operations in 1830. Twenty-five years later, England's first train murder occurs, paralyzing London with the unthinkable when a gentleman is stabbed to death in a safely locked first-class passenger compartment. In the next compartment, the brilliant opium-eater Thomas De Quincey and his quick-witted daughter, Emily, discover the homicide in a most gruesome manner. Key witnesses and also resourceful sleuths, they join forces with their allies in Scotland Yard, Detective Ryan and his partner-in-training, Becker, to pursue the killer back into the fogbound streets of London, where other baffling murders occur. Ultimately, De Quincey must confront two ruthless adversaries: this terrifying enemy, and his own opium addiction which endangers his life and his tormented soul. Ruler of the Night is a riveting blend of fact and fiction which, like master storyteller David Morrell's previous De Quincey novels, "evokes Victorian London with such finesse that you'll hear the hooves clattering on cobblestones, the racket of dustmen, and the shrill calls of vendors" (Entertainment Weekly).
