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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.

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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.
Autorenporträt
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American writer of travelogues, short stories, novels, art criticism, science and drug literature related to hashish and opium cures. He is mostly known for The Hasheesh Eater and Across the Continent, his description of and Overland Stage journey with the painter Albert Bierstadt. His friends and acquaintances ranged from Mark Twain to Brigham Young to Walt Whitman, and he was an integral part of the creation of the Bohemian scene in New York City.