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Explore confessions with exclusive videos and activities. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. The following year it appeared as a novel and has been regularly reprinted ever since. From 1828 until his death he lived in edinburgh and made his living from journalism. Confessions of an english opiumeater kindle edition by. For several reasons i have not been able to compose the notes. In this brief yet intriguing work, he catalogues his encounters with the drug and its ensuing psychological effects.
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The first half of the book provides some autobiographical material and the second half describes his. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Even though it was written 200 years ago, it is still relevant today. The next section is the joys of occasional, recreational opium. Confessions english opium eater, first edition abebooks. The last section is the story of his descent into daily addiction.
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He later met coleridge, southey and the wordsworths. His complex syntax is immediately noticed, and although it often becomes unnecessarily lengthy and. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading confessions of an english opium eater. Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the church of opium. Reader, who have thus far accompanied me, i must request your attention to a brief explanatory note on three points. Confessions of an english opiumeater the pains of opium. Part l to the reader and preliminary confessions, part ii pleasures of opium, introduction to the.
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