# Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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- Authors: [Thomas Dequincey](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-de-quincey)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-859-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2013-01-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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'.