Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

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Summary: This is the DeQuincey you want
Review: If you are choosing between several editions of the -Opium Eater-, this one is the one you want.

True, it does not have Alethea Hayter's introduction, like the Penguin edition has; that being a point in that one's favour. But here you -also- get the entire -Suspiria de Profundis-, which is in many ways more beautiful and interesting than the Opium Eater itself. -Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow- must surely be the single greatest prose poem ever written in English.

The -Suspiria- was intended as a sequel to the -Opium Eater-, and those who enjoy the one will want them both.

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Summary: I dunno about this edition, but the story is hot
Review: Read this book to see what self-expression exemplified via pounds of opium and dirt mashed together in the gnat infested subconscious of our writer, Dequincee, who picked up the habit of slumming to understand himself before Kool-Aid was outplayed by Ice Tea. He lives with a little homeless girl. I mean, maybe y'all wanna read Samuel Pepys diary, but this book is the window I need into the early 19th century London T.S. eliot and Aldous Huxley woulda hated.

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Summary: A masterpiece from a brilliant yet ignored philosopher
Review: This masterpiece of literature is a fascinating account of the pains and pleasures of opium as well as an autobiographical account of his youth. This books illustrates that sometimes moral or other world issues are not always in black and white. A sensitive and beautiful man, de Quincy's great book is a treasure!!!!