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Pipe Dreams The Drug Experience in Literature

Charles Dickens, William James, H. G. Wells, Aleister Crowley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Baudelaire, Horacio Quiroga, Guy de Maupassant, Peter Mark Roget, Jean Lorrain, Thomas de Quincey, Havelock Ellis, Marie Corelli, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Greg Boyd, Maurice Level, Benjamin Paul Blood, Jean Richepin, Jordan Jones, Leo Tolstoy, Fred V. Williams, Ernest Dowson, Théophile Gautier, J. C. O’Day, Hendrik DeLeeuw, Harry Hubbell Kane, Claude Farrère, Santiago Dabove, Ahmad Mahmood, Sampurnanand, Eugenio Buona, Gaston Danville, Edward Levinstein, m. i. blue, Michael Stephans — 2022
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.
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