Suspiria de Profundis

by Thomas de Quincey

Book Overview

A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). Like Confessions, these short essays combined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486837122
• ISBN13: 9780486837123
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"