Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract From the Life of a Scholar. By: Thomas de Quincey - Softcover

Thomas De Quincey was born August 15, 1785 and he died December 8, 1859. He was primarily known as an essayist, though his memoir of his addiction to laudanum (opium and alcohol), Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains his best-known work. His essays "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" were well regarded, and the third essay, in which he dramatized the series of 1811 murders in Ratcliffe Highway, London, essentially created the True Crime genre. His work influenced many later writers from Edgar Allan Poe right up to David Morrell.