Pipe Dreams The Drug Experience in Literature |
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Editor:
| Alter-Gilbert, Gilbert |
Introduction by:
| Alter-Gilbert, Gilbert |
Contribution by:
| Baudelaire, Charles James, William Corelli, Marie Dowson, Ernest Richepin, Jean Gautier, Théophile Ludlow, Fitz Hugh O'Day, J. C. De Leeuw, Hendrik de Quincey, Thomas Kane, Harry Hubbell Crane, Stephen Dickens, Charles Ferrère, Claude Dabove, Santiago Mahmood, Ahmad Sampurnanand, Ellis, Havelock Buona, Eugenio Wells, H. G. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Danville, Gaston Maupassant, Guy de Lorrain, Jean Roget, Peter Mark Blood, Benjamin Paul Level, Maurice Quiroga, Horacio Crowley, Aleister Williams, Fred V. Levinstein, Edward Boyd, Greg blue, M. i. Friedson, Matt Stephans, Michael |
ISBN: | 978-1-58775-026-7 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2022 |
Publisher: | Coyote Arts LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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"There are two histories of drug use: the social history and the secret history of subjective experience."From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little-known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination upon the human imagination. In this remarkable anthology, a dazzling array of authors, including H. G. Wells, Marie...
More Description"There are two histories of drug use: the social history and the secret history of subjective experience."From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little-known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination upon the human imagination. In this remarkable anthology, a dazzling array of authors, including H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, Sadegh Hedayat, Santiago Dabove, Jean Cocteau, William James, Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and a host of others from many cultures and historical periods, raids a pharmacopoeia containing ether, absinthe, morphine, hashish, opium, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, chloral hydrate, psilocybin, ayahuasca, carbon tetrachloride, lsd, amyl nitrate, ecstasy, and angel dust, in flights of descriptive prose of unparalleled suggestive power and visionary splendor.