A relatively brief introduction and connecting passage, followed by.Part II is split into several sections:.Preliminary Confessions, devoted to the author's childhood and youth, and concentrated upon the emotional and psychological factors that underlay the later opium experiences-especially the period in his late teens that De Quincey spent as a homeless runaway in Oxford Street in London in 18.Part I begins with a notice "To the Reader", in order to establish the narrative frame: "I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life." It is followed by the substance of Part I,.įirst published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey.Īs originally published, De Quincey's account was organised into two parts: The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight". Front cover of the second edition of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (London, 1823)Ĭonfessions of an English Opium-Eater ( 1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life.
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