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The English opium eater
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Robert J. H. Morrison |
A masterful biography of one of England & rsquo;s most notorious literary figures Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785 & ndash;1859) has long lacked… |
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In the arms of Morpheus
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Barbara Hodgson |
Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confession… |
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Sax Rohmer's Dope
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Trina Robbins |
"Trina Robbins' brilliant graphic novel adaptation of Sax Rohmer's sensational 1919 novel, Dope, is considered by many (including Trina herself) to be her best work ever as an illustrator. Inspired b… |
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Focus on opiates
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Susan DeStefano |
Examines the social and medical background of opium use, emphasizing its history as a drug with legitimate applications and as a powerful and dangerous illegal narcotic. |
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Confessions of an English opium eater
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Thomas De Quincey |
I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered, very unjustly, in the opinion of my acquaintance from being reputed to have brought upon myself all the suffer… |
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