This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (17851859). The edition presents De Quinceys work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough and accurate annotation of De Quinceys major works ever compiled. Thomas De Quincey 21stCentury Oxford Authors is the most comprehensive selection of De Quinceys writings published in decades, and includes all the essays that made him a major figure in his own age, and that give him a burgeoning relevance in ours. The volume features complete versions of his three most famous works of impassioned autobiographyConfessions of an English OpiumEater (1821), Suspiria de Profundis (1845), and The English MailCoach (1849)as well as a great deal of manuscript material related to these works, and an extensive selection from his revised version of the Confessions (1856). It contains all three of his essays On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1827, 1839, and 1854), the first two instalments of which are brilliant exercises in satirical high jinks, and the final instalment of which is a graphic account of the notorious Radcliffe Highway killings of 1811. It features lengthy excerpts from De Quinceys biographical recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834) and William Wordsworth (1839), both of whom De Quincey admired intensely, though his personal relationship with both poets eventually collapsed into bitterness and...

Binding: Hardcover;658 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: DN; Weight: 958 g; Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 33

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