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Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [EPUB ebook]

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist’s counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that ‘nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium’.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 144 ● ISBN 9781448181186 ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5890544 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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