Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium Eater written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profession, De Quincey describes his addiction, the consciousness alteringproperties of the drug, its pleasures and its pains.