Originally published anonymously in two issues of London Magazine, contemporaries charged that the dreams it described were fabricated.
In the first section of this work the author tells of how he ran away at the age of seventeen and lived homeless for two months, before being allowed, on the permission of a seedy lawyer, to sleep in a rat-infested house. It goes on to describe the author's friendship with a young prostitute, Ann. In its third and last section, the author describes his love for a specific child, his friend William Wordsworth's daughter, Catherine. Originally published anonymously in two issues of London Magazine, contemporaries charged that the dreams it described were fabricated. FTP, what is this work that in various sections deals with the "pleasures" and "pains" of taking a certain drug, the best-known work of Thomas De Quincey?
In the first section of this work the author tells of how he ran away at the age of seventeen and lived homeless for two months, before being allowed, on the permission of a seedy lawyer, to sleep in a rat-infested house.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (prompt on "The Confessions")