Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

Author: Thomas De Quincey

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Price : $12.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780099528593
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Vintage Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.109
Publication date : 01 December 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 9mm
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Availability date : 01 February 2013
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Language : English
Pages : 144
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.

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