Opium was first used in a surprising venue — religious ceremonies — but soon passed into common usage as a cure for various ailments during Victorian times; a resonant symbol of the romantic, dissolute East; and an inducer of fever dreams and worse in those who failed to resist its lure. This beautifully designed book captures the heady essence of opium history and culture. Drawing on memoirs, science, and travel books, Opium traces the changing image of the drug through artifacts and apparatus of its use; illustrations of opium dens in Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Toulon, and Canton; portraits of drug-taking writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Théophile Gautier, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Graham Greene; lurid covers of 19th-century illustrated newspapers and 20th-century pulp-fiction drug titles; and stills from drug-related films that resonate with opium's insidious, enduring allure.
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The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum-the poppy that brings sleep, the source of the "drowsy syrup" in Shakespeare's Othello-is the beautiful flower that answers Farrere's desperate question of where to find his precious opium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drowsy poppy, intoxicating fumes, opium dealers, raw opium, opium smoking, opium smokers, opium use, smoking opium, opium pipe, opium habit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, San Francisco, Claude Farrère, United States, Middle East, North America, Théophile Gautier, Thomas Burke, Charles Dickens, Chinese Repository, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Cocteau, New York's Chinatown, Club des Haschichins, Commissioner Lin, East India Company, John Thomson, Limehouse Nights, Opium War, The Illustrated London News, Black Opium, British Columbia, Broken Blossoms, Ernest Dowson, Little Pete New!
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The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum-the poppy that brings sleep, the source of the "drowsy syrup" in Shakespeare's Othello-is the beautiful flower that answers Farrere's desperate question of where to find his precious opium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drowsy poppy, intoxicating fumes, opium dealers, raw opium, opium smoking, opium smokers, opium use, smoking opium, opium pipe, opium habit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, San Francisco, Claude Farrère, United States, Middle East, North America, Théophile Gautier, Thomas Burke, Charles Dickens, Chinese Repository, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Cocteau, New York's Chinatown, Club des Haschichins, Commissioner Lin, East India Company, John Thomson, Limehouse Nights, Opium War, The Illustrated London News, Black Opium, British Columbia, Broken Blossoms, Ernest Dowson, Little Pete New!
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