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9780140430615
His thirty perilous years of drug addiction both eased his considerable social anxieties and created new, devastating mental and physical torments. Throughout this time he fought a constant and bitter struggle against the incapacity and torpor that opium-then as readily available as aspirin-incurred. De Quincey's powerful evocation of this drug-induced experience gives a fearful insight into the degeneration of a brilliant mind.de Quincey, Thomas is the author of 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater', published 1971 under ISBN 9780140430615 and ISBN 014043061X.
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