Confessions of an English Opium-eater & Other Writings
Автор:
Томас де Квинси, 296 стр., серия:
"Oxford World`s Classics",
издатель:
"OUP General, Oxford University Press", ISBN:
978-0-199-53793-8
His thirty perilous years of drug addiction both eased his considerable social anxieties and created new, devastating mental and physical torments. Throughout this time he fought a constant and bitter struggle against the incapacity and torpor that opium-then as readily available as aspirin-incurred. De Quincey's powerful evocation of this drug-induced experience gives a fearful insight into the degeneration of a brilliant mind.