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Confessions of an English opium-eater : and other writings

Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey.
Print Book, English, cop. 2003
Penguin Books, London [etc.], cop. 2003
XLIV, 296 p. ; 20 cm.
9780140439014, 0140439013
1026011271
Contiene : Suspiria de profundis ; The English mail-coach