ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was “the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight".

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas De Quincey takes us on a journey from his grammar school childhood to his homeless adolescence in Wales, from befriending prostitutes during his nocturnal wanderings in London to enrolling at Oxford University only to drop out when his drug use overcomes him.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published in 1821 in the London Magazine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas De Quincey published his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater in 1821. The publication both fascinated and outraged its 19th-century readers.

Detailed explanation-5: -Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, autobiographical narrative by English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in The London Magazine in two parts in 1821, then as a book, with an appendix, in 1822.