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The Complete Short Stories
Fitz Hugh Ludlow was prolific in his short career and covered a wide range. His humorous fiction was set in the daily life of New York City's upper middle class and he produced several tales of the weird. His most successful stories were based on incidents from his own life, including his experiences on the Overland Stage to California in 1863.
A Brace Of Boys
"A Brace of Boys" by Fitz Hugh Ludlow is a compelling narrative that follows the intertwined lives of two young protagonists as they navigate the challenges and complexities of their coming-of-age journeys. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, the novel explores themes of friendship, personal growth, and the pursuit of one's dreams. Ludlow's storytelling prowess shines as he introduces readers to the lives of the two boys, each with their distinct personalities, aspirations, and struggles. Through a series of captivating and often heartwarming events, the characters evolve, their paths intersecting in unexpected ways that illuminate the transformative power of genuine huma...
The Hasheesh Eater
Literary Nonfiction. THE HASHEEH EATER is the first, and possible still the best, visionary book of the entheogenic drug experience in American literature. Ludlow takes us from Heaven to Hades and back though breathtakingly beautiful and soulful prose. This Logosophia edition is re-edited and formatted from the 1857 original with a new introduction. "Fitz Hugh Ludlow was a remarkable and woefully under-appreciated 19th century American--a New York man of letters, a Western traveler, a progressive, a bohemian, an advocate for opium addicts and an addict himself. His breakthrough hashish memoirs are an easy Yankee match to De Quincey, but he also produced glorious nature and travel writing, as...
The Hasheesh Eater
"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about a universe. I lost all perception of time and space, and knew no distinction between the realities around me, and the phantasmata which sprung in endless succession from my brain." - The Hasheesh Eater. First published in 1857, American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater is one of the first examples of addiction literature. The book recounts Ludlow's initial fascination and subsequent addiction to hasheesh, and includes many detailed descriptions of the hallucinations he experienced while under the influence of the drug, a version of cannabis which he ingested in pill form. There was a minor scandal when the book was published but it quickly became a Victorian bestseller. Ironically, the popularity of The Hasheesh Eater led to interest in the drug it described. Not long after its publication, the Gunjah Wallah Co. in New York began advertising "Hasheesh Candy."
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 5: Opium, the Arts, and America
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Fitz Hugh Ludlow's non-fction essays, travelogues and criticism ranged widely in subject matter. His sketches of Florida depict it months before the Civil War, his theatre and musical criticism highlight early stars of the New York stage, and he later returned to the subject of drugs, as both a student and a sufferer of the opium habit.
The Heart of the Continent
Literary Nonfiction. THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT is an up close, gritty and personal view, via the Overland Stagecoach, of the American West on the cusp of its full settlement and exploitation. Ludlow brought back the first shocking tales of "free love" in the new Mormon Zion of Utah, and unnerving views of lynchings, Indian massacres across the lawless West. "Fitz Hugh Ludlow was a remarkable and woefully under-appreciated 19th century American--a New York man of letters, a Western traveler, a progressive, a bohemian, an advocate for opium addicts and an addict himself. His breakthrough hashish memoirs are an easy Yankee match to De Quincey, but he also produced glorious nature and travel wr...
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 3: Genre-Tales and the Alcohol Novels
Fiction. GENRE-TALES AND ALCOHOL NOVELS contains examples of the lighter fiction Fitz Hugh Ludlow wrote in the "Feminine Fifties," all lit up by humor and observations of the genteel life of 1850's New York. The serial novels presented here treat alcohol as a source of humor and as altering consciousness, with "The Household Angel" as his masterpiece. "Fitz Hugh Ludlow was a remarkable and woefully under-appreciated 19th century American--a New York man of letters, a Western traveler, a progressive, a bohemian, an advocate for opium addicts and an addict himself. His breakthrough hashish memoirs are an easy Yankee match to De Quincey, but he also produced glorious nature and travel writing, ...
Pioneer of Inner Space
Fritz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. His best-seller related his visionary experiences with large, oral doses of hashish, along with his religious, philosophical and medical reflections on the altered states they produced. He became a celebrated figure in the Bohemian circles of New York, along with such friends as Walt Whitman. A short-story writer, a drama and music critic and a journalist, he mingled with the high society of New York while dissolutely wandering among the disreputable, hard-drinking literati.
Pioneer of Inner Space
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Updated and illustrated biography of 19th century master of fiction, travel writing and criticism, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, with his poetry and letters published for the first time. Reportedly Dickens' favorite American writer, he was an early New York City Bohemian, and his friends and colleagues ranged from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to Brigham Young. Dulchinos masterfully weaves contemporary accounts with many family missives to draw the amazing and tragically short life of Ludlow, a nearly lost central figure of American letters.
A Brace Of Boys By Fitz Hugh Ludlow
"A Brace of Boys" by Fitz Hugh Ludlow is a compelling narrative that follows the intertwined lives of two young protagonists as they navigate the challenges and complexities of their coming-of-age journeys. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, the novel explores themes of friendship, personal growth, and the pursuit of one's dreams. Ludlow's storytelling prowess shines as he introduces readers to the lives of the two boys, each with their distinct personalities, aspirations, and struggles. Through a series of captivating and often heartwarming events, the characters evolve, their paths intersecting in unexpected ways that illuminate the transformative power of genuine huma...
