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Absinthe - the Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century

Absinthe - the Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century

A History of the Hallucinogenic Drug and Its Effects on Artists and Writers in Europe and the United States
Lanier, Doris
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Hardback
195 pages
Photographs, References, Bibliography, Index
Published: 1995
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN / EAN: 0899509894

Focusing mostly on writers and artists in France and New Orleans, explores the role of the wormwood-based, anise-flavored drink in the perceptions and subjects of their work. Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, Van Gough, Picasso, Poe, and Jack London are among th



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