Summary
Thomas De Quincey is a writer who confessed so astonishingly about his own addiction to opium that readers thought they were reading fiction, and not a work based on personal experience, which raised the most brutal murders of his era (when the craft still held to virtue, as the author says) to the level of supersatire, which is about Joan of Arc composed a rarely fair court, which celebrated the punctuality and punctuality of the English mail coach, was a role model for many - Dickens, Proust, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
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