Confessions Of An English Opium Eater: Thomas De QuinceyFirst published in 1822, de Quincey's best known work is still in print. Though seemingly offering the reader poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a work of great sophistication and rated as one of the most impressive and influential of all autobiographies. He evidences a nervous self awareness as he scrutinises his own life in an effort to answer that eternal question: Who am I? The horrors of addiction are