Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater . De Quincey was born in 86 Cross Street, Manchester, England. His father was a successful merchant with an interest in literature who died when he was quite young. Soon after his birth the family went to The Farm and then later to Greenheys, a larger country house in Chorlton-on-Medlock near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey's mother, now a widow, moved to Bath and enrolled him at King Edward's School, Bath. De Quincey was a weak and sickly child. His youth was spent in solitude, and when...
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Birthdate:August 15, 1785
Birthplace:Manchester
Date of death:December 8, 1859
Education:Brasenose College, Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford

Written works by Thomas de Quincey

TitlePublishedGenre
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Autobiography
Suspiria de Profundis
Klosterheim, or, The masque Speculative fiction
On Murder 2006 Essay
Memorials and other papers
opium-eater
La Rebelion De Los Tartaros
Recollections of the Lake poets
Richard Bentley and other writings
Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes
Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets
Miscellaneous Essays
Essays
Essays in philosophy
Les confessions d'un mangeur d'opium anglais
Romances and extravaganzas
Murder considered as one of the fine arts
Theological Essays and Other Papers
Rhetoric And Style
works
The Cacadore
Coleridge and opium-eating, and other writings
Letters to a young man
Speculations, literary and philosophic
Caesars and other papers
De Quincey's works
Essays on philosophical writers
Suspira de Profundis
art of conversation and other papers
Biographical and historical essays / by Thomas De Quincey
Selected writings of Thomas De Quincey
ecstasies of Thomas de Quincey
New essays
Dr Samuel Parr, or, Whiggism in its relations to literature, and other writings
Joan of Arc
posthumous works
Stranger's Grave
Ann of Oxford Street
La nonne militaire d'Espagne
Historical And Critical Essays - Vol I
Dr. Johnson and Lord Chesterfield ..
Toilette of the Hebrew lady
Autobiographic sketches
diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803
Diary, 1803, here reproduced in replica as well as in print from the original manuscript in the possession of the Reverend E.H. Steel
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
Selections from De Quincey
Sortilège et Astrologie
California and the gold mania
La roue du malheur
Revolt of the Tartars
Flight of a Tartar tribe
logic of political economy, and other papers
On the knocking on the gate in 'Macbeth'
The Caesars
China
De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts
Conversation
The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey
Execution of Joan of Arc
The Caesars, & The avenger. By Thomas De Quincey
Justice sanglante
English mail-coach, and others essays
The Pleasures and Pains of Opium
The Works of Thomas De Quincey
Seres Imaginarios Y Reales
Style and rhetoric and other papers
The Lock And Key Library
Ceylon And China
Leaders in literature
Politics and Political Economy
Rebelion de Los Tartaros
Political economy and politics
Protestantism and other essays
Essays sceptical and anti-sceptical
Spanish military nun
Beauties selected from the writings of Thomas De Qunicy ..
Literary criticism
Life and manners
Walladmor
Murder as a fine art
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