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Hashish, Wine, Opium


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Hashish, Wine, Opium

Contributors:

By (Author) Charles Baudelaire
Translated by Maurice Stang
By (author) Thophile Gautier

ISBN:

9781847492876

Publisher:

Alma Books Ltd

Imprint:

Alma Classics

Publication Date:

25th March 2013

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Autobiography: writers
Biography and non-fiction prose

Dewey:

844.70803561

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

128

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

140g

Description

"Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautiers and Baudelaires own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.

As well as providing an absorbing account of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following century."

Reviews

Reveals to us enchanting and visionary landscapes, and beguiles us with vegetable correspondences, musical transformations and watery expanses. -- Margaret Drabble

Author Bio

Charles Baudelaire (182167) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential.

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