Morphine/My Lady Opium
A “flip book” featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadence—and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—translated from French by John Baxter (Immoveable Feast, We’ll Always Have Paris): Morphine, a rollicking novel about a handsome cavalry officer who introduces morphine to the...
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A “flip book” featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadence—and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—translated from French by John Baxter (Immoveable Feast, We’ll Always Have Paris): Morphine, a rollicking novel about a handsome cavalry officer who introduces morphine to the aristocrats of 1889 Paris... and sleeps his way through town; and My Lady Opium, a fevered tour through the romantic and mysterious world of opium at the turn of the 20th century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061965340 (0061965340)
Publish date: April 13th 2010
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Here’s a review of a niche book from a reviewer well outside of that niche. The double-header of My Lady Opium and Morphine was loaned to me from a co-worker making a return from France. My Lady Opium is a collection of short stories featuring, well, Opium as the central theme. Each story is varied ...