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Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS
Once 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”.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 144 ● ISBN 9781448181186 ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5890544 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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