#confessions of an english opium eater

[weirdlookindog]

Zhenya Gay (1906-1978) - Illustrations for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey, Heritage Press 1950

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR (5/12) 

These are all classics I have yet to read (other than Wuthering Heights- this is one of my new copies). I included this copy of Wuthering Heights because I want to reread it next year since I might be doing my master’s thesis on it.

[beljar]

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud.

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1821

[aliteraryprincess]

November Wrap Up

I’m not sure how November is already over, but I’m thankful. The quicker I get to my winter break the better. 

Books Read: 6

This was kind of a rough reading month despite me finishing six books. I DNFed two books and only two out of the ones I finished were actually enjoyable. My favorite was by far The Woodlanders, which was a leftover from Victober. My least favorite was The Missionary. 

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy - 4.5 stars

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich - 4 stars

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey - 2.5 stars

New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism by Ann L. Ardis - 3 stars

The Missionary: An Indian Tale by Sydney Owenson Morgan - 2 stars

The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird - 2.5 stars

On Tumblr:

Well, there’s not much here. Which I guess means I was kind of doing my work, otherwise there would be more lists haha.

October Wrap Up

aliteraryprincess’ 50 Books to Read in 2023

On YouTube:

And there’s a decent amount here, including my Victober wrap up, a book haul, and a list of my top nonfiction books.

October / Victober Wrap Up

November TBR - Nonfiction November and Unfinished Reads

July to October Book Haul

The End of the Year Book Tag

Currently Reading 11/21/22

My Top Nonfiction Books

December TBR

[dooareyastudy]

Books I read in October 2022 & my opinion on them !

No in-between this month, it was either really good or just very mid. I feel lazy (as always) so I don’t really develop my opinion on each book so if you are interested in one, feel free to hmu !!

My favourites!

Au Château d’Argol, Julien Gracq, 1938

La Révolution française, Albert Soboul, 1984

Introduction à la lecture de Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, 1947 | And now I have to actually read Hegel, can’t wait for the brain melt!

Mid

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey, 1822

Between Past and Future, Hannah Arendt, 1961

Les Paravents, Jean Genet, 1961

[sorel-nav]

I shed tears, and muse with myself at the mysterious dispensation which so suddenly and so critically separated us forever.

- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey

[werewolfetone]

The fact that Skyrim has a parody of Confessions of an English Opium Eater called Confessions of a Dunmer Skooma Eater sends me into fits every time I think about it

[wellconstructedsentences]

What was it that did in reality make me an opium eater? Misery, blank desolation, abiding darkness.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

[travsd]

Two Centuries Ago: The Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Two Centuries Ago: The Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Some foolhardy person attempted a quip on my social media page earlier today with reference to a hallucinatory movie from the 1930s, joking along the lines of “Who knew people were taking drugs as long ago as that?” But as any anthropologist or any college student who stays awake during class ought to be able to tell you, people have been taking hallucinogenic drugs for as long as there have been…

[moonage-dancer]

started reading Confessions of an English Opium Eater (my friend recommended it) and god this is raw and it's only on page 5

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

2023 Pinterest 50 Book Reading Challenge

22. A book that was written over 100 years ago

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

[drivestraight]

i just wanted to let you know that i think about spit us out reborn at least once a day and it never fails to make me stop and ponder the relationships in my life

something about the tapestry of a life and all the people that are woven into it... ❤️

[kala4akrabee]

@armchairaleck

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for Thomas De Quincey 's : The Confessions of an English Opium - Eater, 1932 by Laurence W. Chaves

[sorel-nav]

Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake; some mightier cause that ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed.

- Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey

[leechs]

junkie scholar reading list

some of the essential leechs texts

pre 1900:

dracula - bram stoker the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde sorrows of satan - marie corelli wormwood - marie corelli  dr. jekyll and mr. hyde - rl stevenson confessions of an english opium eater - thomas de quincey 120 days of sodom - marquis de sade les miserables - victor hugo

1900 to 1980:

junky - william s burroughs naked lunch - william s burroughs queer - william s burroughs the thiefs journal - jean genet our lady of flowers - jean genet the stranger - albert camus orlando - virginia woolf the second sex - simone de beauvoir  on the road - jack kerouac in cold blood - truman capote the theatre and its double - antonin artaud phantom of the opera - gaston leroux requiem for a dream - hubert selby jr last exit to brooklyn - hubert selby jr fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter s thompson a clockwork orange - anthony burgess

post 1980:

sing unburied sing - jesmyn ward  bastard out of carolina - dorothy allison beloved - toni morrison american psycho - brett easton ellis  kill the poor - joel rose trainspotting - irvine welsh cherry - nico walker fiend - peter stenson