Thomas De Quincey

Suspiria de profundis is one of the best-known and most distinctive literary works of the English essayist Thomas De Quincey.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..." First published anonymously in September and …