This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.

... confession , in consideration of the service which I may thereby render to the whole class of opium - eaters . But who are they ? Reader , I am sorry to say , a very numerous class indeed . Of this I became ... ENGLISH OPIUM - EATER . 3.

This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts.

This important early work provides a fascinating glimpse into the processes of drug addiction.

This edition includes the 1821 text of Confessions, its important sequel Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and its sequel, The English Mail-Coach (1849), as well as extensive appendices.

The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854.