{"product_id":"2940150938687","title":"Substance Abuse Six Pack - Six Addiction Classics","description":"\"Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice. \u003cbr\u003eAnd she said, 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Hotel California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntoxication has long been a questionable source of creativity for vice-loving artists, from hasheesh-smoking  cave painters, mushroom-munching monks illuminating Medieval manuscripts with their hallucinatory visions, the narcotic memoirs of William S. Burroughs, the booze-fueled work of Hemingway to the anything goes spirit of post-World War II literature and beyond when it became more unusual for an artist to declare sobriety over addiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it wasn't until the early 1800s that authors began to write explicitly about their illicit vices. Thomas De Quincey kicked off the new dark sub-genre of substance abuse and recovery literature with his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which he first published anonymously in a magazine, correctly anticipating that it would shock Victorian readers. The publicity helped: he put his name on the book version and the best-selling narcotics memoir made him famous.  \u003cbr\u003eDe Quincey's classic and five other early vice related works are collected in Substance Abuse Six Pack:  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps one of the most famous drug-influenced poems – if not works - in all of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfessions was an immediate influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire and Nikolai Gogol. It was also the inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTobacco and Alcohol by John Fiske and The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo short non-fiction books place the vices that feature prominently in this anthology in historical context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. Barrie    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho knew the creator of Never, Never Land had a problem with addiction? Fortunately, it was the minor vice of nicotine, which the Peter Pan playwright uses as a fascinating theme for his satirical story centering around a highly-addictive, legendary blend of tobacco, known as The Arcadia Mixture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCigars and Tobacco by Mark Twain    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe coda to this collection is a short but pithy speech about smoking from the American master. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Includes Artists and Addiction image gallery.","brand":"Enhanced E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109765955824,"sku":"2940150938687","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150938687_p0.jpg?v=1763756369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150938687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}