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Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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"Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness alteringproperties of the drug, its pleasures and its pains.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 352 ● ISBN 9780141905709 ● Herausgeber Barry Milligan ● Verlag Penguin Books Ltd ● Erscheinungsjahr 2003 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2268391 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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