Confessions of an English Opium Eater

by Thomas De Quincey · 1821

A writer chronicles the visionary pleasures and slow torments of his addiction to opium.

Books that mention Confessions of an English Opium Eater (3)

• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins: “There," he said, "are the far-famed CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER!”
• Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'Frederica writes: Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' on a reading list.”
• Babel by R. F. Kuang: “he had thumbed through a copy of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”