The complete online text of Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas de Quincey.

In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...

In her 1926 essay on "Impassioned Prose," Virginia Woolf declared that Thomas De Quincey was "an exception and a solitary." Subsequent readers have often agreed that he defies categorization. From the beginning of his writing career, De Quincey enchanted...

Best known as the author of the Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), Thomas De Quincey was an innovative master of English prose style whose importance has been eclipsed by the modern tendency to consider poetry the major Romantic genre, as well...

If a congressional committee asks "What do you know? And when did you know it?" Marvin Breckinridge (Mrs. Jefferson) Patterson will be able to answer, promptly. She would not need to plead the Fifth, nor forgetfulness. Her 67 engagement books, 1920-1987, stand safely...

Fidelity Investments and two other investment companies were served subpoenas yesterday as the snowballing investigation of abusive trading practices has now ensnared some of the most prestigious names in the mutual fund industry. A spokesman for Secretary of State William F. Galvin confirmed...