Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Barry Milligan, Thomas De Quincey

352 pages • paperback • 1821

124 editions

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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 ...

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