This two-volume gathering of De Quincey’s shorter prose opens with “The Household Wreck”, a harrowing tale of a wife falsely accused of theft, and ranges over narratives, curiosities and speculations, including an essay on the system of the heavens as revealed by Lord Rosse’s great telescope.
Ornate, digressive, often brilliant prose from the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Download the free EPUB.