Autobiographic Sketches
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
Autobiographic Sketches - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographic_Sketches Release date is 2005-01-01
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"Autobiographic Sketches" by Thomas De Quincey is a collection published in 1853. This fragmentary autobiography emerged from thirty reminiscent essays De Quincey contributed to periodicals, later revised and gathered into one volume. Rather than a conventional life story, these sketches reveal De Quincey's inner dream world through compelling episodes—a sister's death, Sunday church visits, time at Oxford. Written in his distinctive "impassioned prose," the work captures the strange, solitary spirit of a writer who lived more vividly in memory and imagination than in outward events. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
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Autobiographic Sketches - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographic_Sketches Release date is 2005-01-01
Produced by Anne Soulard, Arno Peters, Tiffany Vergon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Produced by Anne Soulard, Arno Peters, Tiffany Vergon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
"Autobiographic Sketches" by Thomas De Quincey is a collection published in 1853. This fragmentary autobiography emerged from thirty reminiscent essays De Quincey contributed to periodicals, later revised and gathered into one volume. Rather than a conventional life story, these sketches reveal De Quincey's inner dream world through compelling episodes—a sister's death, Sunday church visits, time at Oxford. Written in his distinctive "impassioned prose," the work captures the strange, solitary spirit of a writer who lived more vividly in memory and imagination than in outward events. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
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