TY - BOOK AU - De Quincey,Thomas TI - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater AV - PR PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Opium abuse -- England KW - Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography KW - De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 KW - Drug addicts -- Great Britain -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opium-Eater; Release date is 2000-01-01; David Price Updated: 2022-11-12; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey is an autobiographical account published in 1821. De Quincey chronicles his laudanum addiction and its profound effects on his life, from the pleasures of early use to the nightmares and visions of dependency. Beginning with his troubled youth as a homeless runaway in London, he traces his relationship with opium through vivid, seductive prose that itself mirrors the drug's allure. This groundbreaking work won De Quincey overnight fame and shaped public understanding of opium for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2040 ER -