Morphine/My Lady Opium

by Claude Farrère

Book Overview

" 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061965340
• ISBN13: 9780061965340
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 7.1"