Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780199600618
• ISBN-10: 0199600619
• Artikelnr.: 36684436

Autorenporträt

Robert Morrison is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of De Quincey, The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009). He has edited volumes of De Quincey's complete Works for Pickering and Chatto, and he is the editor of On Murder , a collection of De Quincey's essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' and other writings for OWC. He has also co-edited with Chris Baldick Polidori's The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre for OWC.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Note on the Text
* Select Bibliography
* A Chronology of Thomas De Quincey
* Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
* Suspiria de Profundis
* The English Mail-Coach
* Appendix A. Manuscript and Other Material relating to Confessions of
an English Opium-Eater
* Appendix B. Manuscript Material relating to Suspiria de Profundis
* Appendix C: Manuscript and Other Material relating to 'The English
Mail-Coach'
* Explanatory Notes