Drug Themes in Fiction/Annotated Bibliography-Post Victorian
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
POST VICTORIAN
Works (not listed in original)
| Author: | Crowley, Aleister |
| Title: | The Diary of a Drug Fiend |
| Publisher: | E. P. Dutton, New York |
| Pages: | 368 pp. |
| Date: | 1923 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Exoticism |
| Annotation:After experimenting with drugs, a young couple become addicted and involved in a utopian drug commune led by a mysterious master. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Hergesheimer, Joseph |
| Title: | Java Head |
| Publisher: | Knopf, New York |
| Pages: | 279 pp. |
| Date: | 1919 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Exoticism; Opium |
| Annotation:The son of an old seafaring family brings home a Manchu wife from China whose oriental ways include opium-smoking. A study in social contrasts and the view of drugs in 19th century America, particularly Salem, Massachusetts. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Maugham, William Somerset |
| Title: | Narrow Corner |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, New York |
| Pages: | 314 pp. |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Escapism; Exoticism; Opium |
| Annotation:Opium-smoking appears to give an English doctor a psychological and philosophical detachment from life which allows him to leave his practice to treat a wealthy patient in the Malay Archipelago—a "narrow corner" of the earth. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |