Thomas De Quincey

Broschiertes Buch

Suspiria de Profundis

Beschreibung

Famed for his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater, De Quincey extended his sensational accounts of drug addiction with the brief essays of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths).

Autor

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is best known for Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which recounted his struggles with addiction. A brilliant scholar of Latin, Greek, German, and English literature, De Quincey was plagued by debt and turned to journalism as a means of maintaining his wife and eight children. His writings for periodicals were enormously popular and covered a diverse range of subjects, from literary criticism to horror fiction.

Produktdetails

• Dover Thrift Editions
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 80g
• ISBN-13: 9780486837123
• ISBN-10: 0486837122
• Artikelnr.: 57828251