A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey\"s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the \"Church of Opium\"....

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on “subtle and mighty opium”....

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey\"s innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams....

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals....

Pablo narra sus propias aventuras, y a traves de ellas conocemos su mundo y la sociedad que le rodea: la miseria, la hipocresia, la farsa de la heroicidad... Quevedo presenta un cuadro de costumbres, realista pero deformado....

Знаменитый плутовской роман, созданный классиком испанской литературы Франсиско де Кеведо. Используя общепринятую к тому времени форму плутовского романа Кеведо реалистично и талантливо отобразил социальную действительность своего времени, пороки и коррумпированность правящей элиты, нищету и отсталость низов....