Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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Editor - B. Milligan

Penguin Classics
ePub eBook : 27 Mar 2003

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"Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness alteringproperties of the drug, its pleasures and its pains.