Morphine/My Lady Opium

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung “[John Baxter is] a man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.” — Newsday 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Louis Dubut De Laforest, Claude Farrere, Claude/ De Laforest Farrere
• Assisted by: John Baxter (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.04.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780061965340
• ISBN: 978-0-06-196534-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Naughty French Novels; Naughty French Novels
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Erotica / General