{"product_id":"suspiria-de-profundis-paperback-2","title":"Suspiria de Profundis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas de Quincey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an English Opium Eater, \u003c\/i\u003e an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of \u003ci\u003eSuspiria de Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Sighs from the Depths\"). Like \u003ci\u003eConfessions, \u003c\/i\u003e these short essays combined drug-induced visions with thought-provoking reflections on the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. \u003cbr\u003e With these books, De Quincey inaugurated the genre of addiction literature, a tradition furthered by Charles Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, and a growing number of modern writers. \u003ci\u003eSuspiria de Profundis \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to influence contemporary artists with the best known of its psychological fantasies, \"Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow,\" which centers on myths related to the Roman goddess of childbirth and was the source for the classic 1977 horror film \u003ci\u003eSuspiria \u003c\/i\u003eand its 2018 remake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is best known for \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an English Opium Eater, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich recounted his struggles with addiction. A brilliant scholar of Latin, Greek, German, and English literature, De Quincey was plagued by debt and turned to journalism as a means of maintaining his wife and eight children. His writings for periodicals were enormously popular and covered a diverse range of subjects, from literary criticism to horror fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739071525113,"sku":"9780486837123","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/71mLI9tes09780486837123_b837cf72-27f6-4c50-9b92-8e0a6f73a4e6.webp?v=1785499616","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/suspiria-de-profundis-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}