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Morphine/My Lady Opium

Part of the Naughty French Novels series
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[John Baxter is] a man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.
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A flip book featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadenceand Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuriestranslated from French by John Baxter (Immoveable Feast, Well 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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Product Details
Harper Perennial
0061965340 / 9780061965340
Paperback
13/04/2010
288 pages
114 x 181 mm, 218 grams