on the physiological effects of sulphuric ether 1850
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Title: On the physiological effects of sulphuric ether, and its superiority to chloroform
Author: Morton, W. T. G.(William Thomas Green),1819-1868
Language: angielski
Year: 1895
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Snuggly Books
ISBN: 9781943813025
Total pages: 36
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None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.
Brian Stableford’s superb translations represent the first appearance in English of Jean Lorrain’s ether-inspired ‘nightmares’, originally collected as Sensations et Souvenirs in 1895. The later tales also translated here for the first time are in the tradition of the contes cruel, and in them the influence of ether-drinking is still very much apparent.
In his authoritative introduction Brian Stableford presents Lorrain as one of the select band of literary figures "whose life and art were bound together into the most seamless whole. He was the man who embodied, more intimately and more inescapably than any other, the absurdities, affectations, paradoxes and perversities of the Decdent style and the Decadent world-view."
The cover shows a colourised photograph of the actor Édouard de Max in the play Prométhée by Jean Lorrain, 1900.
CONTENTS
Introduction by Brian Stableford
EARLY STORIES
1. The Egregore
2. Funeral Oration
3. The Locked Room
4. Magic Lantern
5. The Glass of Blood
6. Beyond
7. Glaucous Eyes
SENSATIONS
8. One of Them
9. An Undesirable Residence
10. A Troubled Night
11. A Posthumous Protest
12. An Uncanny Crime
13. The Holes in the Mask
14. The Visionary
15. The Possessed
16. The Double
SOUVENIRS
17. The Toad
18. Night-Watch
19. The Spirit of the Ruins
RÉCITS
20. Dolmance
21. One January Night
22. The Spectral Hand
23. Prey to Darkness
CONTES
24. The Princess of the Red Lilies
25. The Princess at the Sabbat
26. Narkiss
27. The Princess aux Miroirs
Notes
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First published in 2002 by Tartarus Press
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