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A genius addicted to opium, fascinated by murder, and pursued by creditors, Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was one of the lesser-known English romantics, who influenced generations of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Wilson (How To Survive the Titanic), in this valuable addition to De Quincey scholarship, has written an informative and carefully researched critical biography that captures her subject's strangeness,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More