Tag Archive: Thomas De Quincey

Aug 25 2012

Thomas DeQuincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater Part VI, the final reading



Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio This is my final reading of this remarkable story. Tonight’s reading entails the conclusion of the author’s confession involving the years of 1818 and 1819, as certain months and years that he tried to quit his addition, and how it was nearly …

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Aug 05 2012

A Reading of Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” Part III

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Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio I begin my reading where DeQuincey describes the sorrow of leaving his friend Ann, a fifteen year old prostitute, and his promise to return to her as he departed London on his quest for financial help from several friends and Jewish Money …

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Jul 26 2012

A Reading of Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” Part 1



Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio I first read this work when I was eighteen. It made a memorable impression on me then, because De Quincey was 19 when he began his life long addiction to opium, that was the inspiration to his philosophical and literary works. I …

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