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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and para
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Paperback, 352 pages
Published
March 27th 2003
by Penguin Classics
(first published 1821)
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Parts of his life story are included. It focuses on his experiences under opium and his motivations for taking opium.
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Και απομακρυνόταν σε ένα θαυμάσιο βάθος, βούλιαζε μακριά στο μεγαλείο, χωρίς τέλος!
Φαινόταν φτιαγμένη απο διαμάντια και χρυσό.
Με αλαβάστρινους θόλους και ασημένιες στέγες.
Και λαμποκοπούσε απο πεζούλι σε πεζούλι, ψηλά.
Ανυψωμένη εδώ, έλαμπαν γαλήνια περίπτερα σε φροντισμένους δρόμους εκεί περιστοιχίζονταν πύργοι.
Με επάλξεις που στις αεικίνητες προσόψεις τους ακουμπούσαν άστ ...more
Και απομακρυνόταν σε ένα θαυμάσιο βάθος, βούλιαζε μακριά στο μεγαλείο, χωρίς τέλος!
Φαινόταν φτιαγμένη απο διαμάντια και χρυσό.
Με αλαβάστρινους θόλους και ασημένιες στέγες.
Και λαμποκοπούσε απο πεζούλι σε πεζούλι, ψηλά.
Ανυψωμένη εδώ, έλαμπαν γαλήνια περίπτερα σε φροντισμένους δρόμους εκεί περιστοιχίζονταν πύργοι.
Με επάλξεις που στις αεικίνητες προσόψεις τους ακουμπούσαν άστ ...more
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