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GUILTY THING: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey (The English Opium Eater)
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- Estado
- Como nuevo
- Notas del vendedor
- “Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise no markings.”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Year Printed
- 2016
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Original
- Place of Publication
- New York
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- Biographies & True Stories
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- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780374167301
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374167303
ISBN-13
9780374167301
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219041971
Product Key Features
Book Title
Guilty Thing : Alife of Thomas De Quincey
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-048947
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"This is a seamless, stirring, sublime biography, which takes you to the heart, or rather the head, of the opium-eater." --Daisy Dunn, Evening Standard "There are plenty of stylistic fireworks worthy of De Quincey here . . . The result is a great, complicated book." --Daisy Hay, The Guardian "Wilson is steeped in her subject matter . . . A richly intelligent and well-informed study, which will surely become the favoured one for our time." --Gillian Tindall, The Financial Times "In her pursuit, Wilson often catches decisively this most elusive character, and the chase is exhilarating." --Hermione Eyre, The Spectator "Startling . . . By harnessing the sparks created by the friction of these twin obsessions, murder and imagination, Wilson ingeniously illuminates the dark realms De Quincey's spirit prowled . . . Wilson circumscribes her subject in an ingeniously De Quinceyan fashion . . . Exhilarating . . . [Wilson's] remarkable book engenders in its readers those modes of thinking necessary to follow De Quincey as he shifts unpredictably into and out of every imaginable shape." --Kelly Grovier, The Times Literary Supplement "In connecting the architecture of De Quincey's wild, opium-fuelled mind with physical surroundings, Wilson provides a handrail through the pandemonium and isolation. He emerges from her book a sympathetic but irresponsible obsessive... Wilson has successfully brought De Quincey out from under the shadow of his contemporaries. He stands before us deeply flawed ... But he was also a dreamer of the best dreams in literature"--Ruth Scurr, Daily Telegraph "Multilayered and wonderfully insightful"--John Walsh, Sunday Times "Stunning ... A brilliant, giddy-making portrait not of a literary hanger-on, which is how posterity tended to see De Quincey, but of a genius, which is how he saw himself ... Wilson's narrative [has] a wonderfully hallucinatory effect ... Energetic and wonderfully compelling"--Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday " Guilty Thing brings triumphantly into focus a life racked by opium's insidious effects ... Beautifully crafted, Frances Wilson's narrative sets up patterns, mirrors and doublings that make multiple intersections between De Quincey's inner and outer worlds. An impressive contribution to literary biography, her book amounts to the most 'De Quinceyan' account of De Quincey we are likely to see"--Nicholas Roe, Literary Review "Wilson is forensic about the terrors lurking in De Quincey's imagination ... Wilson's quirky, urgent biography, which is clearly steeped in extensive knowledge of the period, is an essential guide to this remarkable drug addict"--Daisy Goodwin, The Times , 9 April 2016 "Wonderfully insightful"-- Sunday Times " Wilson will enthrall readers with this mesmerizing and agile biography of English writer Thomas De Quincey . . . An impressively researched biography as dazzling as its subject."-- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Well-researched and elegantly written."-- Kirkus Reviews, Wilson [is] an exquisitely precise and devastatingly witty literary historian. - Donna Seaman, Booklist "[Wilson's] arguments are passionate and absorbing, and the overall aim to infuse the acts of reading and writing with a sense of mystery and urgency is laudable." - Kirkus Reviews, "This is a seamless, stirring, sublime biography, which takes you to the heart, or rather the head, of the opium-eater." --Daisy Dunn, Evening Standard "There are plenty of stylistic fireworks worthy of De Quincey here . . . The result is a great, complicated book." --Daisy Hay, The Guardian "Wilson is steeped in her subject matter . . . A richly intelligent and well-informed study, which will surely become the favoured one for our time." --Gillian Tindall, The Financial Times "In her pursuit, Wilson often catches decisively this most elusive character, and the chase is exhilarating." --Hermione Eyre, The Spectator "Absorbing . . . De Quincey's previous biographers have sometimes felt duty bound to be balanced, comprehensive, to play the straight man in a double act with their grotesquely wayward subject. It's something of a relief, then, when Wilson suggests that what we need is not another biography of De Quincey but a 'De Quinceyan biography.' She takes pleasure in her quarry--and takes enjoyable risks with him--as she tracks him through his various lives . . . Wilson is responsive to [De Quincey's] writing throughout her book (she makes you want to read him, not merely know him)." --Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine "Startling . . . By harnessing the sparks created by the friction of these twin obsessions, murder and imagination, Wilson ingeniously illuminates the dark realms De Quincey's spirit prowled . . . Wilson circumscribes her subject in an ingeniously De Quinceyan fashion . . . Exhilarating . . . [Wilson's] remarkable book engenders in its readers those modes of thinking necessary to follow De Quincey as he shifts unpredictably into and out of every imaginable shape." --Kelly Grovier, The Times Literary Supplement "In connecting the architecture of De Quincey's wild, opium-fuelled mind with physical surroundings, Wilson provides a handrail through the pandemonium and isolation. He emerges from her book a sympathetic but irresponsible obsessive... Wilson has successfully brought De Quincey out from under the shadow of his contemporaries. He stands before us deeply flawed ... But he was also a dreamer of the best dreams in literature" --Ruth Scurr, Daily Telegraph "Multilayered and wonderfully insightful" --John Walsh, Sunday Times "Stunning ... A brilliant, giddy-making portrait not of a literary hanger-on, which is how posterity tended to see De Quincey, but of a genius, which is how he saw himself ... Wilson's narrative [has] a wonderfully hallucinatory effect ... Energetic and wonderfully compelling"--Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday " Guilty Thing brings triumphantly into focus a life racked by opium's insidious effects ... Beautifully crafted, Frances Wilson's narrative sets up patterns, mirrors and doublings that make multiple intersections between De Quincey's inner and outer worlds. An impressive contribution to literary biography, her book amounts to the most 'De Quinceyan' account of De Quincey we are likely to see"--Nicholas Roe, Literary Review "Wilson is forensic about the terrors lurking in De Quincey's imagination ... Wilson's quirky, urgent biography, which is clearly steeped in extensive knowledge of the period, is an essential guide to this remarkable drug addict" --Daisy Goodwin, The Times , 9 April 2016 "Wonderfully insightful" -- Sunday Times " Wilson will enthrall readers with this mesmerizing and agile biography of English writer Thomas De Quincey . . . An impressively researched biography as dazzling as its subject." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Well-researched and elegantly written." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
828.809
Synopsis
National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times Book Review , Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016 Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life, and by the idea of sudden death. Running away from school to pursue the two poets, De Quincey insinuated himself into their world. Basing his sensibility on Wordsworth's and his character on Coleridge's, he forged a triangle of unusual psychological complexity. Aged twenty-four, De Quincey replaced Wordsworth as the tenant of Dove Cottage, the poet's former residence in Grasmere. In this idyllic spot he followed the reports of the notorious Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811, when two families, including a baby, were butchered in their own homes. In his opium-soaked imagination the murderer became a poet while the poet became a murderer. Embedded in On Murder as One of the Fine Arts , De Quincey's brilliant series of essays, Frances Wilson finds the startling story of his relationships with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Opium was the making of De Quincey, allowing him to dissolve self-conflict, eliminate self-recrimination, and divest himself of guilt. Opium also allowed him to write, and under the pseudonym "The Opium-Eater" De Quincey emerged as the strangest and most original journalist of his age. His influence has been considerable. Poe became his double; Dostoevsky went into exile with Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in his pocket; and Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Alfred Hitchcock, and Vladimir Nabokov were all De Quincey devotees. There have been other biographies of Thomas De Quincey, but Guilty Thing is the first to be animated by the spirit of De Quincey himself. Following the growth of his obsessions from seed to full flowering and tracing the ways they intertwined, Frances Wilson finds the master key to De Quincey's vast Piranesian mind. Unraveling a tale of hero worship and revenge, Guilty Thing brings the last of the Romantics roaring back to life and firmly establishes Wilson as one of our foremost contemporary biographers.
LC Classification Number
PR4536.W55 2016
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