32 Results for : laudanum
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Classic Serial), Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
By Lavinia Murray. Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 autobiographical account of his consumption of the liquid opiate laudanum, a legal painkiller of the time, and his painful and surreal descent into addiction. With full cast. Directed by Gary Brown. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Cotton, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006975/bk_bbcw_006975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sleep Scenes
Sleep Scenes ab 35.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Or Dreams Of A Laudanum Drinker (1868). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Jura,- Shop: hugendubel
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Hörbuch, Digital, 435min
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was first published anonymously in 1821 in the London Magazine and was published in book form a year later. A revised edition was published in 1846. It is an account by the author of his addiction to laudanum and the effects it had on his life. This recording presents an abridged version of the 1856 edition. Language: English. Narrator: Roy Macready. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000846/bk_bigh_000846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 214min
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. Confessions was the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight.First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, Confessions was released in book form in 1822 and again in 1856 in an edition revised by De Quincey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Cuellar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205982/bk_acx0_205982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sleep Scenes
Sleep Scenes ab 17.49 € als Taschenbuch: Or Dreams Of A Laudanum Drinker (1868). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
Thomas De Quincey's highly charged and hauntingly accurate account of laudanum addiction is considered the root of all drug novels. From Baudelaire to Burroughs, Confessions of an English Opium Eater paved the way for later generations of writers. Initially prescribed as pain relief for a chronic condition, De Quincey soon found himself compelled by the opium experience. His dreams are recounted here in every hallucinatory detail: threatening Roman armies, sunken cities, and German mountaintops. De Quincey's vivid memories will evoke wonder and curiosity in the listener. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gunnar Cauthery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001303/bk_naxo_001303_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Deadly Cure: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
In Brooklyn in 1899, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician - the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias - of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder - for it must be murder - and confront the man he is convinced is the real killer. His investigation leads him to a reporter for a muckraking magazine and a beautiful radical editor who are convinced that a secret experimental drug from Germany has caused the death of at least five local children. By degrees, Noah is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs, criminals, and politics, which threatens not only his career, but also his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001940/bk_drms_001940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Black Bird , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 162min
England 1888 After forfeiting his wife to the company of other men, Sir James Addison, a notable English poet and gentleman, begins descending into a demented melancholy that prompts him to move from his elaborate estate in Oxfordshire to the London's seedy borough of Soho. Soon after his arrival in Soho, Sir James begins yielding to the intoxicating effects of laudanum and to the whims of his madness, just as his memory begins lapsing and Jack the Ripper begins his campaign of terror. Plagued by the persistent presence of an inordinately large raven, and hellish nightmares of his forthcoming death, Sir James and his friend, Cornelius Ingram, take leave of London and travel to North Yorkshire and to a time-trodden and once regal residence known as 'Windham House' where the raven follows and the spectre of death is waiting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brad Wills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002889/bk_acx0_002889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Honourable Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
It is 1884. In Khartoum, General Gordon stands on the roof of his fortress as the city is besieged. He has vowed to fight the Mahdi to the death. At his side is the boy he rescued from the English dockyardslums - his reluctant last ally. Approaching with the Camel Corps is a young doctor who has joined the expedition to rescue Gordon. As the men make agonising progress across the desert, John Clarke struggles to be the hero of his imagining, while his abandoned wife, Mary, troubles his conscience. Back in London, as controversy rages over the expedition, Mary finds herself adrift and isolated. Her only release comes from laudanum, an addiction that will take her into Victorian London's darkest corners.An Honourable Man is a novel of extraordinary power that combines the intimate and the epic, exploring the folly of Empire through the fine grain of human experience and emotion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000503/bk_twuk_000503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mirk and Midnight Hour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
A Southern girl. A wounded soldier. A chilling force deep in the forest. All collide at night’s darkest hour. Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war - a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier lying in an abandoned lodge deep in the woods, things begin to change. Thomas is the enemy - one of the men who might have killed her own brother - and yet she's drawn to him. But Violet isn't Thomas's only visitor; someone has been tending to his wounds - keeping him alive - and it becomes chillingly clear that this care hasn't been out of compassion. Against the dangers of war and ominous powers of voodoo, Violet must fight to protect her home and the people she loves. From the author of Strands of Bronze and Gold comes a haunting love story and suspenseful thriller based on the ancient fairy tale of "Tam Lin". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001674/bk_lili_001674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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