Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. `On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth` offers both a small masterpiece of Shakespearian interpretation and a provocative statement of De Quincey`s personal aesthetic of contrast and counterpoint. Suspiria de Profundis blends autobiography and philosophical speculation into aseries of dazzling prose-poems which explore the mysteries of time, memory, and suffering. `The English Mail-Coach` develops a richly apocalypti.