The central vice of this work was prescribed to the author at 28 for his dyspepsia, and he relates his continued usage for another 35 years.
It was first published in a series of articles in London Magazine in 1821, and it traces the story of the author through his privileged school days, poverty in London, and finally a comfortable country existence. The central vice of this work was prescribed to the author at 28 for his dyspepsia, and he relates his continued usage for another 35 years. This work relates how the author used a drug to enhance such pleasures as the opera and how others, such as Shadwell and Coleridge, were also addicts. FTP, identify this controversial work by Thomas De Quincy.
It was first published in a series of articles in London Magazine in 1821, and it traces the story of the author through his privileged school days, poverty in London, and finally a comfortable country existence.
{Confessions of an English Opium Eater}