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The Poem of Hashish By Charles Baudelaire

The Poem of Hashish

By Charles Baudelaire

  • Release Date: 2006-01-01
  • Genre: Social Science
  • $0.99

Description

A comprehensive and factual essay in which Baudelaire analyses the feelings, both pleasurable and torturous, experienced by an opium user and the intense effort it takes to overcome the addiction. Delving deep into the subject, he traces the origins of the plant from which hashish is made. The essay is highly informative and serves as a warning to current and would-be opium users.