Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Produktbeschreibung

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* Note on the Text


* Select Bibliography


* A Chronology of Thomas De Quincey


* Confessions of an English Opium-Eater


* Suspiria de Profundis


* The English Mail-Coach


* Appendix A. Manuscript and Other Material relating to Confessions of an
English Opium-Eater


* Appendix B. Manuscript Material relating to Suspiria de Profundis


* Appendix C: Manuscript and Other Material relating to 'The English
Mail-Coach'


* Explanatory Notes 

Autoreninfo

Robert Morrison is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009). He has edited volumes of De Quincey's complete Works for Pickering and Chatto, and he is the editor of On Murder, a collection of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' and other writings for OWC. He has also co-edited with Chris Baldick Polidori's The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre for OWC.