Shannonhouse

An intriguing anthology of literary and historical writings on the subject of addiction includes a variety of fictional excerpts, memoirs, and essays by Aldous Huxley, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Jack London, Dorothy Parker, William S. Burroughs, John Cheever, O. Henry, Sigmund Freud, and other authors, past and present. Original. 15,000 first printing.