Reading Group - Thomas de Quincey

Far more than a memoir of addiction, de Quincey's celebrated and vastly influential _Confessions_ are a hallucinatory, path-breaking exploration of the links between experience, imagination and creativity by one of English literature's great prose stylists.

The Penguin edition the group will be reading includes _Suspiria de Profundis_ and _the English Mail Coach,_ two equally remarkable companion-pieces inhabiting the same stimulating nocturnal poetry.