the english opium eater a biography of thomas de quincey

The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas de Quincey

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morrison, Robert, PUBLISHER: Pegasus Books, Author of the famed and scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey () has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods--including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle--have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. He was a man who engaged with nearly every facet of literary culture, including the roles played by publishers, booksellers, and journalists in literary production, dissemination and evaluation. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a fascinating (and topical) figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced creativity and addiction strike highly resonant chords for a contemporary readership. Robert Morrison's biography passionately argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected icon of English literature.

Confession of an opium eater antique little book

Selling a little book from our attic after having it redecorated we found this tucked down by the beams, its in good condition considering ccant find a date but has 4d written in pencil in top inside cover.comes with a blue pamphlet in the back its rather quirky letters to a young man whos education has been neglected due to opium very strange. Hopefully someone can add it to there collection. Can post for free. Read More

Confession of an opium eater antique little book

Selling a little book from our attic after having it redecorated we found this tucked down by the beams, its in good condition considering ccant find a date but has 4d written in pencil in top inside cover.comes with a blue pamphlet in the back its rather quirky letters to a young man whos education has been neglected due to opium very strange. Hopefully someone can add it to there collection. Can post for free to uk Read More

Opium: The Flowers of Evil (Hardcover)

While the 20th century was one long war for control of the world's oil supplies,opium was a key strategic raw material during the four preceding centuries. Opium consumption dates back to Ancient Egypt. Initially a useful pharmaceutical product called laudanum; it quickly became popular in Britain. It then became the basis for trade with isolationist China as soon as the Opium Wars obtained trading rights for Western companies and the Chinese began smoking it in industrial quantities. This book offers

The Unsinkable Heather Mills: The Unauthorized Biography of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simpson, Neil, PUBLISHER: Phoenix Books, Who exactly is the woman who was married to the most famous living Beatle?

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Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hack, Richard, PUBLISHER: Phoenix Books, Although she is the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion books sold worldwide, Agatha Christie lived a life shrouded in secrecy and fueled by curiosity. Nearly as notorious for her aversion to the press as she was for her 80 books and collections of short stories, Christie made no secret of her need for privacy. Utilizing over previously unpublished letters, notes, and documents, award-winning biographer Richard Hack allows Christie to write again, 33 years after her death. DUCHESS OF DEATH is her story, as full of romance, travel, wealth, and scandal as any mystery Christie ever crafted. There have been numerous biographies of the Queen of Crime, all of which claim to be definitive. However, DUCHESS OF DEATH is the first to draw from such an enormous number of previously unpublished correspondence and notes, effectively establishing it as the most authoritative, penetrating look at the personal and literary life of Christie.

Thomas Middleton / Alexander Dyce - The works of Thomas

Are you interested in this item?This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. 5 volumes in 16mo (19.5x12.5 cm) Full leather with gold title and tooling on the spine, gold decoration on the plates. Marbled edges. LXXVI, pages; portrait engraved on the frontispiece of volume 1; a folded engraved plate on the frontispiece of volume 4 (small tear to the bottom edge).Condition: Some peeling on the covers. Yellowed pages with stains; foxing and oxidation stains on some pages; small defect on the top margin of p. XVII of volume 1. Crumple at the bottom margin of page 17 of vol 2, a hole on the bottom margin of page 19 of vol 2. Small crack on the bottom edge of the external hinge of the front plate of vol 3. Read more

Thomas the tank boxed collection of 68 books, thomas library

in excellent condition, some books have never even been read complete collection of 68 books in a lovely box to keep them all in worth over £200 collection from wyken, coventry Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

Undertaker - the eater of gold + dedication + offset - T1 C

Very nice lot around the series revelation western Dorison and Meyer with volume 1 in EO new enriched a great dedication Meyer to the felt.We add an offset to l "State nine n. 400 ex (dimensions 70 x 50)" Read More

Thomas & Friends: Thomas the Tank Engine Book Set of 10 books

Titles are: • Thomas, James and the Red Balloon • Percy’s Chocolate Crunch • Gordon Takes a Tumble • No Sleep for Cranky • Bulgy Rides Again • Toby had a Little Lamb • A Bad Day for Harold • Emily’s New Coaches • Thomas and the Ghost Engine • Thomas and the Jet Engine All in excellent condition with storage box. If you are unable to collect in person, I'm happy to post if you pay for the postage. If you are reading this, these are still for sale. Thanks for looking. Also have more Thomas the Tank Engine stuff – please see my other adverts for details. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

Tintin - the little twentieth 50 - the Opium Den - B - EO

Click here to view this lot Very rare issue says "Opium den", cover of the little twentieth No.. 50 of December , sought after by collectors of the Petit Vingtième.It is one of the best-known scenes of all the work of Hergé, and become very difficult to find, because collectors who have this issue want not easily separate.This cover drawn by Hergé is one of the 10 covers the most sought after by collectors, and, with this blue and red color typical illustrations 'Little Xx' of the Blue Lotus, she became quickly mythical for all cartoonists and comics fans.Note that the issue presents old track of central fold, probably for shipment to a Subscriber by post. The issue is also on the bottom and right lea of the old traces of moisture which have weakened the paper.Former issue highly sought and ideal to achieve a very decorative framing with one-piece authentic international notoriety.Free shipping by registered post to the world.Click here to visit Catawiki Read More

80+ pieces of Thomas the tank engine. Thomas and friends train track

80+ pieces of Thomas track. Very good condition. Barely played with. Includes ramps and v way tracks. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Meade, Marion, PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen's closely guarded privacy came to an end in when he began a romantic relationship with then-wife Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Up until that point, Allen had managed to portray his neuroses as a joke; after his break-up with Farrow, the public regarded Allen in a new light. In her biography, Meade reveals Allen to be a man as deeply troubled as he is remarkably talented. A director, actor, author, and clarinetist, Allen has won several Oscars and toured the world with his jazz band. He also spent decades considering suicide every day, and maintained a fierce control of his portrayal by the media. Through numerous interviews with childhood friends, colleagues from his days as a television writer and standup comic, actors who've worked with him, and numerous people in the film industry, Meade creates a challenging and well-rounded portrait of this familiar figure.

Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry (Paperback)

Traces the evolution of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry through her writings,including unpublished and unfinished works,and examines how her work was influenced by her lesbianism and alcoholism

The Prince of Wale a biography in Norwich

The Prince of Wales a biography is written by Jonathan Dimbleby. Published circa . In excellent condition.

The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography - hard back

Hard back book - The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography . In fairly good condition according to age. No rips or tears. Contains good illustrations and photos. The cover is slightly shabby where it folds around the book. My great aunt's name is on inside cover in ink. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

Austrailian Hawk Over the Western Front: A Biography of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hellwig, Adrian, PUBLISHER: Grub Street, Major Roderick Dallas is Australia's leading air ace of all time and, with fifty victories, also one of the highest-scoring Commonwealth aces. Even so, until this excellently researched volume, there has never been a full biography of this exceptional pilot. Flying Nieuport Scouts, Triplanes and Camels with the RNAS and RAF, he was an ever-present threat over the Western Front and the scourge of the German Air Force. Hellwig's book has been taken principally from primary sources (Dallas' own letters, log book and service record, in addition to squadron record books, combat reports and contemporary accounts), and his resulting conclusions will surprise many. Here is a fitting tribute not just to Australia's greatest war hero of the air but to a man any country would be proud to call their own. It will be read avidly by all those interested in World War I history. Adrian Hellwig has had articles published previously in Cross & Cockade International, Over the Front, and the Australian Association of WWWI Aero Historian's journal.

Thomas and Friends -Thomas Story Library -part of The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry

Great gift for young readers and their parents ! Based on The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry with coloured illustration on each page. See thomasandfriends. Group of 15 books in v.g.c. Each book is numbered. Those in the group are: 3 Donald & Douglas 6 Elizabeth 8 Terence 9 Skarloey 11 Percy 13 Sir Handel 14 Oliver 17 Edward 20 Stepney 21 Duck 22 Henry 23 Harold 24 Peter Sam 25 Emily 29 Daisy Ad ID: Delivery Services Consumer Credit

Blood and thunder, the unofficial biography of Jonah Lomu in

Blood and thunder,The unofficial biography of Jonah lomu.

Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Webb, Nick, PUBLISHER: Del Rey Books, It all started when Douglas Adams demolished planet Earth in order to make way for an intergalactic expressway-and then invited everyone to thumb a ride on a comical cosmic road trip with the likes of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the other daft denizens of deep space immortalized in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Adams made the universe a much funnier place to inhabit and forever changed the way we think about towels, extraterrestrial poetry, and especially the number 42. And then, too soon, he was gone. Just who was this impossibly tall Englishman who wedded science fiction and absurdist humor to create the multimillion-selling five-book "trilogy" that became a cult phenomenon read round the world? Even if you've dined in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, you've been exposed to only a portion of the offbeat, endearing, and irresistible Adams mystique. Have you met the only official unofficial member of Monty Python's Flying Circus? The very first person to purchase a Macintosh computer? The first (and thus far only) author to play a guitar solo onstage with Pink Floyd? Adams was also the writer so notorious for missing deadlines that he had to be held captive in a hotel room under the watchful eye of his editor; the creator of the epic computer game Starship Titanic";" and a globetrotting wildlife crusader. A longtime friend of the author, Nick Webb reveals many quirks and contradictions: Adams as the high-tech-gadget junkie and lavish gift giver...irrepressible ham and painfully timid soul... gregarious conversationalist and brooding depressive... brilliant intellect and prickly egotist. Into the brief span of forty-nine years, Douglas Adams exuberantly crammed more lives than the most resilient cat-while still finding time and energy to pursue whatever side projects captivated his ever-inquisitive mind. By turns touching, tongue-in-cheek, and not at all timid about telling the warts-and-all truth, Wish You Were Here is summation as celebration- a look back at a life well worth the vicarious reliving, and studded with anecdote, droll comic incident, and heartfelt insight as its subject's own unforgettable tales of cosmic wanderlust. For the countless fans of Douglas Adams and his unique and winsome world, here is a wonderful postcard: to be read, reread, and treasured for the memories it bears. "From the Hardcover edition."

If These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House

The s-era house on Holly Street had a wrap-around porch,lots of bedrooms,and a central hall with seven doors. It also had ghosts - the joys and pains and human dramas of its residents. Before long,James Morgan,its newest occupant,found himself wanting to learn about the seven other families who had called 501 Holly Street their home. If These Walls had Ears recounts his search to find them,and his discovery of America's social and cultural past through the stories of these real people's lives.

Thomas Huxley -The Origins of the Species a review in the

Thomas Huxley-The Origins of the Species a review in the Westminster Review - London, George Manuring, x 14,5 cmComplete in two volumes and in fine condition, Contains the first and best review of Darwin's Origins of the Species. The review appeared in the Westminster Review in . It is part of a wide range of critical reviews on a vast variety of subjects, These bound volumes are most often in terrible shape. These two volumes are in very good if not fine condition. 4tos, the first covers in the January through April and the second July through October . The Darwin review is in Volume One, pages . Both volumes complete and aside from scattered foxing to end papers, no flaws. Each bound in period half black polished calf with gilt detailed spines. Both bindings are in very fine condition. The review was a spirited defense not only of Darwin, but of science as a whole. It threw down the gauntletto the believers of Religious claptrap and other rotting garbage* Unfortunately the forces of stupid mustered enough numbersto putDonald the Dumb into the White House. … Read More

The Best of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends VHS

Rare Thomas the Tank VHS Good overall condition but some marks to case as shown in photos Its full steam ahead once more as Ringo Starr narrates 18 stories, including 'Thomas, Percy And The Coal', 'The Deputation', 'Ghost Train' and 'Thomas And The Missing Christmas Tree' Read More

Thomas Pips-the secret of the Green key-large luxury linen

Thomas Pips the secret of the Green keyLarge luxury linen hardcoverIssuing volume: UR36ex.met original page14ex. without original pageThis is one of those 14 ex. without original pageSigned by Buth9th art Edition Read More

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