Thomas De Quincey

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Born:
Aug. 15, 1785
Died:
Dec. 8, 1859

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Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.

Books by Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey: Suspiria de Profundis and Other Writings (2011) No rating

Suspiria de Profundis and Other Writings

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Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Large Print) (Paperback, 2006, Echo Library) 3 stars

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Large Print)

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Thomas de Quincey, Thomas De Quincey: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2015, Penguin Books, Limited) No rating

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

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Thomas De Quincey: Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes (Paperback, Spanish language, 2007, Editorial Lectorum) 3 stars

Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes

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George Meredith, Thomas Moore, Edward FitzGerald, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Francis Thompson, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Charles Lamb, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Thomas, Edward, Brooke, Rupert, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Walter De la Mare, Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Louis MacNeice, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Blake, M. H. Abrams, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Hugh Clough, A. E. Housman, John Ruskin, Thomas De Quincey, Katherine Mansfield, John Keats, Robert Browning, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Pater, D. H. Lawrence, John Stuart Mill, William Butler Yeats, Stephen Greenblatt, William Morris, Dylan Thomas, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Lear, W. H. Auden, William Wordsworth, M. Abrams, Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Joyce, Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Clare, John, George Darley, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, William Hazlitt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore: Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, Volume 2 (1999, W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)) 4 stars

Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, Volume 2

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Thomas De Quincey: Confesiones De Un Ingles Comedor De Opio (Paperback, Spanish language, 2005, Alianza Editorial Sa) 4 stars

Confesiones De Un Ingles Comedor De Opio

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Thomas De Quincey: Del Asesinato Considerado Como Una De Las Bellas Artes/ Murder Considerated as One of the Fine Arts (Paperback, Spanish language, 2004, Alianza) 5 stars

Del Asesinato Considerado Como Una De Las Bellas Artes/ Murder Considerated as One of the Fine Arts

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