It tells of how the author decided to escape the Manchester Grammar School because he was so much better at Greek than his teachers, an event which was memorable because his servant dropped a trunk full of books outside the resident masters door without waking anyone. After being befriended by a prostitute named Ann, the author goes to Eton, where Lord Desart signs a security so he can borrow an advance against his inheritance. FTP, identify this autobiographical essay, whose author moved to a small cottage in 1812 to study German metaphysics and enjoy a habit that would take him 17 years to break, a story of addictio
It tells of how the author decided to escape the Manchester Grammar School because he was so much better at Greek than his teachers, an event which was memorable because his servant dropped a trunk full of books outside the resident masters door without waking anyone. After being befriended by a prostitute named Ann, the author goes to Eton, where Lord Desart signs a security so he can borrow an advance against his inheritance. FTP, identify this autobiographical essay, whose author moved to a small cottage in 1812 to study German metaphysics and enjoy a habit that would take him 17 years to break, a story of addiction to laudanum written by Thomas De Quincey.
It tells of how the author decided to escape the Manchester Grammar School because he was so much better at Greek than his teachers, an event which was memorable because his servant dropped a trunk full of books outside the resident masters door without waking anyone.
{Confessions of an English Opium Eater}