Here are De Quincey’s most famous pieces: his inquiry into why the knocking at the gate after Duncan’s murder so chills an audience, the mock-learned lectures on murder considered as one of the fine arts, a defence of Joan of Arc, and the dreamlike prose fantasia of The English Mail-Coach with its Vision of Sudden Death and Dream-Fugue.
Essential reading for lovers of English prose, from the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Download the free EPUB.