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Thomas De Quincey
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Grade Level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
ISBN: 0486287424
Page Count: 80
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Impressive account — admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness — of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug.

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