Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey : With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction.