Thomas De Quincey: 104 books

Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785 –  1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West, changing the perception of drugs in the European imagination forever. In this ebook:...

Published in 1838, Thomas De Quinceys The Avenger is a Gothic story of bloodshed, cruelty and religious authoritarianism. It centers around the character of John Williams, a London serial killer who brutally massacred seven people in the 1810s. By and large, the book represents De Quinceys aesthetic...

Thomas De Quincey, an English essayist during the turn of the nineteenth century, began life as a fairly sickly child, and would spend much of his life in the grips of one illness or another. Through a series of misguided attempts at getting an education, De Quincey dropped out of college and instead...

'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...

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) fut un des écrivains anglais les plus célèbres de son temps. L'audience de son ouvre dépassa de loin les frontières des îles Britanniques et de son époque et l'on sait qu'il fut un modèle tant pour Edgar Allan Poë, Charles Baudelaire, Nikolaï Gogol ou Jorge Luis...

Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant Thomas de Quincey Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire. Partant des notes prises par Wasianski, l'ancien élève qui s'occupa de Kant à la fin de sa vie,...

Este volumen recoge algunos de los textos que mejor definen a Thomas de Quincey y mejor plasman su compromiso con la inteligencia, la verdad, el humor y la polémica. Con Judas Iscariote, ensayo tremendamente célebre en su época, levantó ampollas al cuestionar la maldad del apóstol. Para...

Intoxication has long been a questionable source of creativity for vice-loving artists, from hasheesh-smoking cave painters, mushroom-munching monks illuminating Medieval manuscripts with their hallucinatory visions, the narcotic memoirs of William S. Burroughs, the booze-fueled work of Hemingway...

This work contains a fascinating collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey. Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785 - 1859) was a seminal English essayist. He is most famous for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821), which gained him fame almost overnight and inspired the tradition of addiction writing...

Thomas De Quincey was an English author during the Romantic movement, associating with writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Best known for his command of the psychological fantasy story, De Quincey produced stories of the curious and obscure, but always with the traditional Romantic...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Thomas De Quincey. Auteur des célèbres "Confessions d'un mangeur d'opium anglais" (que Baudelaire popularisa avec "Les Paradis artificiels") et de nombreuses autres nouvelles gothiques, essais biographiques et récits divers...

Thomas De Quincey was an English author during the Romantic movement, associating with writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Best known for his command of the psychological fantasy story, De Quincey produced stories of the curious and obscure, but always with the traditional...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative...

'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on...