Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: first_name:  Thomas de
last_name: Quincey
Language: English
Year: 1822

“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”<BR><BR>Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a work of immense sophistication and certainly one of the most impressive and influential of all autobiographies. The work is of great appeal to the contemporary reader, displaying a nervous (postmodern?) self-awareness, a spiralling obsession with the enigmas of its own composition an