English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1235 short lesson, about 20 seconds
De Quincey's Confessions
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The idea
Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater appeared anonymously in two parts in the London Magazine in eighteen twenty-one. It recounts the pleasures of opium and then its pains: insomnia, nightmares, frightening visions and physical suffering.
In practice
The pleasures, then the pains.
Where people slip
The pains section is the longer one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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