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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

✍ Scribed by Thomas de Quincey; Alethea Hayter


Book ID
112048103
Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Weight
9 MB
Series
Penguin Classics
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140430615

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALETHEA HAYTER;

This edition follows the first edition of 1821. An
appendix includes the most valuable passages from the
longer but inferior edition of 1856.


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