TY - BOOK AU - De Quincey,Thomas TI - Autobiographic Sketches AV - PR PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography KW - De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7306 ER -