# Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Vol. 1

By **Thomas De Quincy**

- ISBN-13: 9781443733670
- Publisher: Read Books
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 292
- Published: 4 Nov 2008

## About this book

In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. Opium De Quincey wrote. Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning a sound it was at tha

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