Morphine/My Lady Opium (Naughty French Novels) - Softcover

Farrere, Claude; Dubut De Laforest, Jean-Louis

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9780061965340: Morphine/My Lady Opium (Naughty French Novels)

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ISBN 10: 0061965340 ISBN 13: 9780061965340

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

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"[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.

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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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