Description - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
The original drug memoir - a true nineteenth century account of the pleasures and pains of addiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS
Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket- portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'.
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The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey. with a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg.
