Ebook: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY GEORGE ARM STRONG W AUCHOPE, M.A., Ph .D., Professor of English in the University of Iowa

The introduction makes no claims to original research, but
is intended to give, in condensed form, a biographical sketch
of the author, and such critical material as the student would
hardly have time, at this stage, to collate at first hand.
In regard to the texts of the Confessions, a situation which
requires detailed explanation exists. For Parts II and III,
the “ Pleasures ” and “ Pains of Opium,” respectively, I have
used the author’s revised text of 1856. This contains about
15,000 more words than the original edition ; about 6000
words of this new matter, however, appear as a scientific
digression at the beginning of Part III. For Part I, the
“ Preliminary Confessions,” I have adhered to the briefer text
which originally appeared in The London Magazine in 1821.