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Confessions of an english opiumeater ebook pdf, epub, mobi, prc. Here is the classic disclaimer which seems, in some form or another, to have graced the beginning of every literary work dealing with sin up to the 1970s. It was criticized for presenting a too positive and too enticing picture of the opium experience to readers. He hopes that it will be instructive 1, which is why he is willing to go into such explicit details about his personal life. Confessions of an english opiumeater project gutenberg. Confessions of an english opium eater quotes and analysis. A notorious success since its 1821 publication, the work has been an important influence on philosophers, theorists, and psychologists, as well as literary writers, of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Augustine had a complex motive for undertaking such a selfanalysis. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Although he was an acute literary critic, a voluminous contributor to blackwoods and other journals, and a perceptive w.
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