Substance Abuse Six Pack 2

by Henry Vizetelly, Rudyard Kipling, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, William H. Brereton, Charles Baudelair

Overview

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about a universe. I lost all perception of time and space, and knew no distinction between the realities around me, and the phantasmata which sprung in endless succession from my brain."
- The Hasheesh Eater.

Substance Abuse Six Pack 2 brings together six addiction classics:

The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
A History of Champagne by Henry Vizetelly
The Truth about Opium by William H. Brereton
The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
An Ode of Thanks for Certain Cigars by James Russell Lowell
The Soul of Wine by Charles Baudelaire

Substance Abuse Six Pack 2 is a sinner's smorgasbord of vice-fueled delights including the classic addiction memoir The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow; a fascinating history of Champagne from 1882 by Henry Vizetelly; The Betrothed (the infamous poem in which Rudyard Kipling declares a "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."); a revealing Victorian study of opium addiction and more.

Includes 'Authors and Vices' image gallery.

"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
- Charles Baudelaire.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150997844
Publisher:	Enhanced E-Books
Publication date:	07/17/2015
Series:	Substance Abuse Six Pack , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	206,440
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).

Henry Richard Vizetelly (1820-1894) was an English publisher and writer. He started the publications Pictorial Times and Illustrated Times, wrote several books while working in Paris and Berlin as correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and in 1887 founded a publishing house in London, Vizetelly and Company.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

Guy Thorne was the pen name of Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull (1875 - 1923), a prolific English journalist and novelist best known for his novel When It Was Dark: The Story of A Great Conspiracy (1903). He also wrote under the names C. Ranger Gull and Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

William H. Brerton, fl. 1877. Short story writer and solicitor, WB was resident in Hong Kong in the late 1870s.