{"title":"Fitz Hugh Ludlow","description":"Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as \"Fitzhugh Ludlow,\" (1836-1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).","products":[{"product_id":"collected-works-of-fitz-hugh-ludlow-volume-4-the-complete-short-stories-hardcover","title":"Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 4: The Complete Short Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFitz Hugh Ludlow's short stories are collected here for the first time. He burst on the literary scene in 1857 with the unlikely best seller \u003cem\u003eThe Hasheesh Eater\u003c\/em\u003e. Written when he was just 20 years old, the book swept him into a career as a prolific novelist, short story author, arts critic, travel writer, journalist and editor. His friends and colleagues ranged from Walt Whitman to Brigham Young to Mark Twain. The material published in Ludlow's \u003cem\u003eCollected Works \u003c\/em\u003edisplays a depth of observation, a breadth of erudition and an appetite for extreme experience applied to the emerging modern American nation. \u003cem\u003eThe Heart of the Continent\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1870, bookended his brief but prolific 13-year career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough famous for his non-fiction explorations, Ludlow's bread and butter as a full-time professional writer was the short story. As this volume testifies, he was prolific in his short, fourteen-year career and covered a wide range. His humorous light fiction was set in the daily life of New York City's upper middle class. He produced several Poe-influenced tales of the weird. And he was most successful when basing stories on emotional incidents from his own life, including tales satirizing religious squabbles (informed by his upbringing by a born-again, Abolitionist preacher), tales of love lost from among his own family's disappointments, and stories turning on his experiences on the Overland Stage to California in 1863.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67669668331743,"sku":"9780996639460","price":56.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RgnG2oVthz9780996639460.webp?v=1790549535"},{"product_id":"collected-works-of-fitz-hugh-ludlow-volume-3-genre-tales-and-the-alcohol-novels-hardcover","title":"Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 3: Genre-Tales and the Alcohol Novels - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) burst on the literary scene in 1857 with the unlikely best seller \u003cem\u003eThe Hasheesh Eater\u003c\/em\u003e. Written when he was just 20 years old, the book swept him into a career as a prolific novelist, short story author, arts critic, travel writer, journalist and editor. The material published in Ludlow's \u003cem\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/em\u003e displays a depth of observation, a breadth of erudition and an appetite for extreme experience applied to the emerging modern American nation. Volume 3, \u003cem\u003eGenre-Tales and the Alcohol Novels\u003c\/em\u003e, contains four examples of the lighter fiction he wrote to pay his bills in the Feminine Fifties, all lit up by humor and close observations of the genteel life of 1850's New York. But two of the three serial novels presented here, unusual for their time, treat alcohol as a festive source of humor and interesting states of consciousness. The third novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Household Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, was his masterpiece, a portrayal of alcoholism and its effects on family and society. It signaled the arrival of a major talent, who unfortunately died at age 34 before his full promise as a novelist could be fulfilled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67739312160991,"sku":"9780996639453","price":56.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kpxg81C3gO9780996639453.webp?v=1790635929"},{"product_id":"the-annotated-hasheesh-eater-paperback","title":"The Annotated Hasheesh Eater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I recommend The Annotated Hasheesh Eater, edited by David Gross. [Fitz Hugh] Ludlow is outrageously erudite, sprinkling his drug tale with references to Hindu mythology, ancient Chinese folk medicine, and tenth-century Welsh royalty. Gross turns what could be maddening into a pleasure by providing helpful notations that explain the arcana.\"―Justin Martin, \"Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians\" (2014)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67941617402079,"sku":"9781434809865","price":24.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JqfFb2t1D99781434809865.webp?v=1791427927"},{"product_id":"the-hasheesh-eater-being-passages-from-the-life-of-a-pythagorean-paperback","title":"The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the Life of a Pythagorean - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The secret lies in the use of hasheesh. A very few words will suffice to tell what hasheesh is. In northern latitudes the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. Under a southern sun this same plant loses its fibrous texture, but secretes, in quantities equal to one third of its bulk, an opaque and greenish resin. Between the northern and the southern hemp there is no difference, except the effect of diversity of climate upon the same vegetable essence; yet naturalists, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the latter, have distinguished it from its brother of the colder soil by the name Cannabis Indica. The resin of the Cannabis Indica is hasheesh. From time immemorial it has been known among all the nations of the East as possessing powerful stimulant and narcotic properties; throughout Turkey, Persia, Nepaul, and India it is used at this day among all classes of society as an habitual indulgence. The forms in which it is employed are various. Sometimes it appears in the state in which it exudes from the mature stalk, as a crude resin; sometimes it is manufactured into a conserve with clarified butter, honey, and spices; sometimes a decoction is made of the flowering tops in water or arrack. Under either of these forms the method of administration is by swallowing. Again, the dried plant is smoked in pipes or chewed, as tobacco among ourselves. Used in whatever preparation, hasheesh is characterized by the most remarkable phenomena, both physical and spiritual. A series of experiments made with it by men of eminent attainments in the medical profession, principally at Calcutta, and during the last ten years, prove it to be capable of inducing all the ordinary symptoms of catalepsy, or even of trance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67947149000927,"sku":"9781770831438","price":27.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RpBoeTpxwV9781770831438.webp?v=1791532324"},{"product_id":"the-hashish-eater-being-passages-from-the-life-of-a-pythagorean-paperback","title":"The Hashish Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA mesmerizing journey into the uncharted territories of consciousness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1857, a young American writer embarked on a series of extraordinary experiments that would forever change his understanding of the human mind. Fitz Hugh Ludlow's daring autobiographical account chronicles his experiences with hashish-from euphoric visions of impossible beauty to harrowing descents into phantasmagoric terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the keen eye of a natural observer and the pen of a gifted storyteller, Ludlow guides readers through kaleidoscopic dreamscapes, mystical revelations, and the profound psychological depths he discovered within himself. Part scientific inquiry, part philosophical meditation, and part cautionary tale, \u003cem\u003eThe Hashish Eater\u003c\/em\u003e offers an unflinching look at both the seductive allure and devastating consequences of his experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work in American literature and one of the earliest detailed accounts of drug experiences in the Western world, Ludlow's narrative remains as vivid and thought-provoking today as when it first shocked and fascinated readers more than 150 years ago. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of consciousness exploration, 19th-century literature, or the timeless human quest to transcend ordinary perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68048929521887,"sku":"9781434106056","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xpxImbKU0G9781434106056.webp?v=1792050641"},{"product_id":"the-hasheesh-eater-hardcover","title":"The Hasheesh Eater - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1857, American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater is one of the first examples of addiction literature. 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