Last Days Of Immanuel Kant

QUINCEY, THOMAS DE

History

Franklin Classics

Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey

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Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Wentworth Press

<div>A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). Like Confessions, these short essays combined drug-induced visions with thought-provoking reflections on the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. With these books, De Quincey inaugurated the genre of addiction literature, a tradition furthered by Charles Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, and a growing number of modern writers. Suspiria de Profundis&nbsp;continues to influence contemporary artists with the best known of its psychological fantasies, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow," which centers on myths related to the Roman goddess of childbirth and was the source for the classic 1977 horror film Suspiria and its 2018 remake.</div>

Suspiria de Profundis (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dover Publications

Thomas De Quincey was an opium addict for much of his life; this novel, his most famous work, derives largely from his own debauchery. Confessions delineates De Quincey's descent into regular opium use, describing the development of debilitating dependenc

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Literary

Adamant Media Corporation

Romances And Extravaganzas

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Legare Street Press

Essays on Style, Rhetoric, and Language

On Murder As A Fine Art

This is a gripping and chilling true crime account of the infamous Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811. Thomas De Quincey, himself a notorious opium addict, wrote this essay in 1827, examining the murders and their aftermath in gruesome detail. His account is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, creating a haunting and atmospheric portrait of London's dark underbelly. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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