Confessions of an english opium-eater and other writings Thomas De Quincey.
In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium.?Opium!? De Quincey wrote.?Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of Ambrosia, but no further: how unmeanin...
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