Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Vintage Classics)

by Thomas De Quincey (Author), Howard Marks (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  2013

  $14.52

  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle.