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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Verlag: | Vintage Digital |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 03.01.2013 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781448181186 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 144 |
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Beschreibungen
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.