L'Anglais mangeur d'opium

Name: L'Anglais mangeur d'opium
Author: Thomas De Quincey

by Thomas De Quincey

FR·~2 hours

Chapters

Description

A paraphrase, rather than a translation, of De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium eater.

Details

Full title

L'Anglais mangeur d'opium Traduit de l'Anglais et augmenté par Alfred de Musset, avec une notice par M. Arthur Heulhard

Language

Duration

~2 hours (160K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

France: Le Moniteur du Bibliophile, 1878.

Credits

Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))

Release date

2023-01-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Opium abuse -- England Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 Drug addicts -- Great Britain -- Biography

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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