Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English essayist and intellectual, best known for his autobiographical work, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' (1821), which provided an unprecedented psychological insight into addiction. De Quincey was born in Manchester to a mercantile family, but his prose reveals a man more inclined to the life of thought and literature. He attended Oxford but never ...