Oxford World's Classics / Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey's personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis blends autobiography and philosophical speculation into aseries of dazzling prose-poems which explore the mysteries of time, memory, and suffering. 'The English Mail-Coach' develops a richly apocalyptic vision which sets nineteenth-century England's political and imperial grandeur against the suffering and loss of innocence which it entails.
This selection presents De Quincey's major works in their original uncut and unrevised versions, which in some cases have not been available for many years.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth; Suspiria de Profundis; The English Mail-Coach
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey, geb. am 15. August 1785 in der Nähe von Manchester (England) als Sohn eines wohlhabenden Vaters, entlief im Alter von sechzehn Jahren der Schule, studierte später in Oxford und pflegte seine literarischen Sympathien zu den Seeschülern (nach dem Lake District in Cumberland benannt) Coleridge, Wordsworth und Southey. 1817 heiratete er Margaret Simpson, mit der er acht Kinder hatte. Die Inspirationsquelle Thomas de Quinceys für seine Dichtkunst und die Niederschrift seiner Träume war das Leben im Rausche des Opiums.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Thomas de Quincey
- 2008, Reissue, XXXIV, 257 Seiten, Maße: 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Grevel Lindop
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199537933
- ISBN-13: 9780199537938
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Englisch
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