Overview
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS
Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist''s counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that ''nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium''.
- | Author: Thomas De Quincey
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Jan 03, 2013
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099528593
- | ISBN-10: 0099528592
