Confessions of an English opium-eater / [Thomas De Quincey].

  • Thomas De Quincey
Date:
1822
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Credit: Confessions of an English opium-eater / [Thomas De Quincey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTICE TO THE READER. Tue incidents recorded in the Preli- minary Confessions, lie within a period of which the earlier extreme is now rather more, and the latter extreme less, than nineteen years ago: conse- quently, in a popular way of comput- ing dates, many of the incidents might be indifferently referred to a distance of eighteen or of nineteen years; and, as the notes and memoranda for this narrative were drawn up originally about last Christmas, it seemed most natural in all cases to prefer the former date. In the hurry of composing the narrative, though some months had then elapsed, this date was every where retained: and, in many cases, b
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