Autobiographic sketches.
By: By Thomas De Quincey.
Series: [De Quincey's writings. v. 12]
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Notes: Enlarged edition of the author's "Life and manners"; replaced the latter in the set. Retains the half-title of the Edinburgh edition: Selections, grave and gay, from writings published and unpublished, by Thomas De Quincey.
Table of contents: title: The affliction of childhood.; title: Dream echoes of these infant experiences.; title: Dream echoes fifty years later.; title: Introduction to the world of strife.; title: Infant literature.; title: The female infidel.; title: I am introduced to the warfare of a public school.; title: I enter the world.; title: The nation of London.; title: Dublin.; title: First rebellion in Ireland.; title: French invasion of Ireland, and second rebellion.; title: Travelling.; title: My brother.; title: Premature manhood.