De QuinceY-Confessions Of English Opium

Impressive account -- admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness -- of authors early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug. >De QuinceY-Confessions Of English OpiumQuincey Thomas deDover9780486287423