Biographical Essays

Name: Biographical Essays
Author: Thomas De Quincey

by Thomas De Quincey

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-08-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

About the author

Thomas De Quincey

1785–1859

Best known for turning addiction, dreams, and memory into unforgettable prose, this English essayist brought a dark, intensely personal voice to 19th-century literature. His most famous work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, helped make him one of the era’s most distinctive nonfiction writers.

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