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"The English Mail-Coach, or The Glory of Motion" by Thomas de Quincey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"Dinner Real and Reputed" by Thomas de Quincey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Thomas De Quincey considerava que la intel·ligència humana no havia assolit mai l'alçada que va atènyer amb Immanuel Kant, un del filòsofs més influents de tots els temps. I tanmateix la intel·ligència humana, fins i tot quan arriba tan amunt, no solament és mortal sinó que pot decaure, envellir, tornar-se decrèpita. Llavors, De Quincey experimenta encara més afecte per aquesta claror suprema, just en el moment en què vacil·la. En segueix les palpitacions. Anota l'hora en què Kant deixa de poder crear idees generals i ordena falsament els fets de la natura. Certifica el moment en què la seva memòria defalleix i l'instant en què la seva facultat de reconèixer s'extingeix. Pinta els quadres successius del seu deteriorament físic, fins a l'agonia, fins a la darrera espurna de consciència, fins al sospir final. D'aquesta manera, el relat dels últims dies d'Immanuel Kant esdevé un llibre universal sobre la decrepitud que pot colpejar a tothom, independentment del seu geni.

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De Quincey, der seit dem siebten Lebensjahr verwaist ist und unter der nachlässigen Vormundschaft von vier Personen aufgewachsen ist, verbringt seine Schulzeit im Internat. Als 17-Jähriger flieht er aus dem Internat, nachdem er erfolgreich eine ältere Dame aus seinem Bekanntenkreis um Geld angebettelt hat. Er schlägt sich nach London durch und freundet sich mit der jungen Prostituierten Anna an. Das Geld ist schnell ausgegeben, und er findet Unterschlupf in einem Abbruchhaus, das einem zwielichtigen Winkeladvokaten gehört. Er lebt von Abfällen, leidet meistens Hunger. Ein Projekt, Geld mit literarischen Arbeiten zu verdienen, schlägt fehlt.Im Jahr 1804 befindet er sich in London und nimmt wegen starker Kopf- und Gesichtsschmerzen auf Anraten eines Studienfreundes zum ersten Mal Opium in der Form von Laudanum ein. Die beruhigende Wirkung der Droge, die positive Wirkung auf das seelische Gleichgewicht und die geistige Klarheit und Kreativität führen in den nächsten acht Jahren zu einem maßvollen und kontrollierten Konsum von Opium, der immer wieder von längeren Phasen unterbrochen wird, in denen er ohne Droge auskommt.INFO: Dieses ebook soll Drogen oder Drogenmissbrauch auf keinen Fall verherrlichen.

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Thomas De Quincey was an English author during the Romantic movement, associating with writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Best known for his command of the psychological fantasy story, De Quincey produced stories of the curious and obscure, but always with the traditional Romantic emphasis on feeling. His masterwork, «Confessions of an English Opium Eater» (1821), stemmed from his own laudanum addiction, and was followed by «Suspiria de Profundis», a collection of essays which continued to capture the same dark brilliance as in «Confessions». The collection was originally published in fragmentary form, and remained unfinished upon De Quincey's death in 1859. This edition includes «The Affliction of Childhood,» a reflection on the death of the author's two sisters in childhood, «Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow,» one of his best-known works about the Roman goddess of childbirth, and «The English Mail-Coach,» on the «grandeur and power» of the English mail-coach system.

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Thomas De Quincey, an English essayist during the turn of the nineteenth century, began life as a fairly sickly child, and would spend much of his life in the grips of one illness or another. Through a series of misguided attempts at getting an education, De Quincey dropped out of college and instead became a vagrant. The youth barely had enough food to eat and resorted to begging in order to survive. These years served as a depressing foundation for his later years, which were marred by isolation and solitude. After eventually returning to and graduating from university, De Quincey became a journalist and translator. His works gained little popularity. De Quiney's resulting depression crippled him, and the forlorn man turned to opium in order to escape from reality. The use quickly turned to abuse, though, which was the subject of De Quincey's most famous work «Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.» The piece made him an overnight sensation as it detailed his personal background and spiraling drug abuse. De Quincey revised and republished the piece a number of times in order to address questions and criticisms that the population had about his portrayal of the addiction. This essay, along with three other works, are included in the collection «Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings.»

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“I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive.” So Thomas de Quincey begins his shocking autobiography, the “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”. Originally published anonymously in two parts in the “London Magazine” in 1821, it is a gripping account of one Englishman’s addiction to laudanum, a tincture which contained a large amount of opium. De Quincey, born in 1785, begins by describing his early life and the difficult psychological factors he experienced as a young adult, including time spent destitute and living on the street, which contributed to his long addiction. De Quincey then candidly details the beginning of his opium use in 1804 and how much he enjoyed the effects of the drug for several years. Beginning in 1812, De Quincey began to experience many ghastly and negative effects of his long drug use and describes in shocking detail the nightmares, insomnia, frightening visions, and debilitating physical effects he suffered from it. In so doing De Quincy’s account remains a fascinating warning of the dangers of opium addiction.

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Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to Blackwood's and other journals, and a perceptive writer on history, biography, and economics, Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater.First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 (he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache). It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence.Describing the general style of the Confessions, an English critic of the period wrote in the London Monthly Review: «They have an air of reality and life; and they exhibit such strong graphic powers as to throw an interest and even a dignity round a subject which in less able hands might have been rendered a tissue of trifles and absurdities.»In later years, De Quincey revised and expanded the first edition of the Confessions into a much longer, more verbose work which lacked the readable intensity of the original. The present edition reprints the first version, generally considered more impressive, and admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness.

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