Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859· 2 chapters· 65,554 words

and who actually _did_ die on the following day, rose, armed himself with a sword, and descended in his shirt into the street. The chance was a good one, and the mob were made aware of it, for catching the wolfish dog in the high noon and carnival of his bloody revels--in the...

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1. Chapter 1

and who actually _did_ die on the following day, rose, armed himself with a sword, and descended in his shirt into the street. The chance was a good one, and the mob were made a...

2. Chapter 2

mischief, yet with a misgiving that all was not quite safe, very much like an old raven looking down a marrow-bone. In fact, such is the metrical skill of the man, and such the...