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Impressive account - admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness - of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug.de Quincey, Thomas is the author of 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ', published 1995 under ISBN 9780486287423 and ISBN 0486287424.
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