Confessions of an English Opium Eater

About Confessions of an English Opium Eater :Confessions of an English Opium Eater 1821 is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight"The avowed purpose of the first version of the Confessions was to warn the reader of the dangers of opium, and it combined the interest of a journalistic exposé of social evil, told from an addict’s point of view, with a somewhat contradictory and seductive picture of the subjective pleasures of drug addiction. The book begins with an autobiographical account of the author’s addiction. It then describes ineffective detail the euphoric and highly symbolic reveries that he experienced under the drug’s influence and recounts the horrible nightmares that continued use of the drug eventually produced. The highly poetic and imaginative prose of the Confessions makes it one of the enduring stylistic masterpieces of English literature. This is a Historical read of the 18th century as well as a popular literary classic.

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