"Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier's and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium.
As well as providing an absorbing account of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following century."
- ISBN13 9781847490933
- Publish Date 1 March 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English