Confesiones de un comedor de opio inglés by Thomas de Quincey

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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. Confesiones de un comedor de opio inglés ebook Great Ideas By Thomas de Quincey Format ebook ISBN 9788430607273 Series Author Publisher Release 30 October 2013 Subjects Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. In 'The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. A lo largo del siglo XIX, cuando el uso del opio en Occidente comenz a difundirse por entre los varios estratos sociales y su circulacin comercial provocaba conflictos blicos como la Guerra del Opio entre China y Gran Bretaa de 1839 a 1842, las Confesiones de un ingls comedor de opio se constituyen en un documento excepcional de los hbitos y reflexiones de un adicto literato de la. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. 'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.

Confesiones de un comedor de opio inglés by Thomas de Quincey