Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 5
Opium, the Arts, and America
Published on 3. March 2018
Book
Hardback
854 pages
978-0-9966394-7-7 (ISBN)
Description
Fitz Hugh Ludlow's non-fction essays, travelogues and criticism ranged widely in subject matter. His sketches of Florida depict it months before the Civil War, his theatre and musical criticism highlight early stars of the New York stage, and he later returned to the subject of drugs, as both a student and a sufferer of the opium habit.
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Language
English
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 52 mm
Weight
1397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9966394-7-7 (9780996639477)
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American writer of travelogues, short stories, novels, art criticism, science and drug literature related to hashish and opium cures. He is mostly known for The Hasheesh Eater and Across the Continent, his description of and Overland Stage journey with the painter Albert Bierstadt. HIs friends and acquaintances ranged from Mark Twain to Brigham Young to Walt Whitman, and he was an integral part of the creation of the Bohemian scene in New York City.