num_pages: 222
description: The Confessions appeared in 1821, in the September and October issues of the London Magazine, followed in the next year by publication in book form. De Quincey was thirty-six. It was his first significant published work, enormously successful; and it remains today not merely a masterpiece but also a very modern work, touching on matters - drugs, dreams, childhood traumas, the workings of the mind - which have a permanent relevance. Over thirty years later he revised and expanded the text for an edition of his collected works, losing in the process much of the freshness and power of the 1822 version.
language: English
title: Confessions of an English Opium-eater
titlecomplete: Confessions of an English Opium-eater (Revolution & Romanticism 1789-1834)
characters: Ann, Thomas De Quincey
genres: Biography, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 9708
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
publisher: UNKNO