Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey / Frances Wilson.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]

x, 397 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

First American edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index.

The prelude -- Books -- Childhood and schooltime -- Schooltime (continued) -- Residence in London -- Summer vacation -- Residence at Oxford -- Retrospect: love of nature leading to love of mankind -- Home at Grasmere -- Residence in Dove Cottage and the revolution -- Residence in London and Grasmere -- The recluse -- Imagination, impaired and restored -- Same subject (continued) -- Postscript.