# Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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- Authors: [Thomas Dequincey](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-de-quincey)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-03-27

## Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.

## Editions

### Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

- Publisher: macmillan_collector_s_library
- ISBN: 978-15-0989-979-1
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2019-09-05
- Language: en_GB

### Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater

- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 56 min
- Narrated by: Oliver Cotton, James Nickerson
- ISBN: 978-14-7134-534-0
- Published: 2013-05-01
- Language: en_GB

### Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-859-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2013-01-03
- Language: en_GB

### Confessions of an English Opium Eater

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-901-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2003-03-27
- Language: en_GB

### Confessions of an English Opium Eater

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-570-9
- Published: 2003-03-27
- Language: en_GB

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