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- 2013
- year of publication
- 144
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- vintage_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-00-9952-859-3
- EAN
- 9780099528593
- Publication date
- 2013-01-03
- Book
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater · 5 editions
The publisher on this edition
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'.
