The Opium-Eater

✍ Scribed by Morrell, David

• Book ID: 108629112
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Series: Thomas De Quincey
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316261388

✦ Synopsis

FROM BESTSELLING THRILLER AUTHOR DAVID MORRELL COMES A BROODING THOMAS DE QUINCEY TALE ABOUT THE COLDEST OF DEATHS AND THEIR HEARTBREAKING AFTERMATH. Thomas De Quincey—the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and *Inspector of the Dead—*was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s. His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency. He invented the word "subconscious" and anticipated Freud's psychoanalytic theories by more than a half century. His blood-soaked essays and stories influenced Edgar Allan Poe, who in turn inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. But at the core of his literary success lies a terrible tragedy. In this special-edition novella, based on real-life events, Morrell shares De Quincey's story of a horrific snowstorm in which a mother and father died and their six...