{"product_id":"dead-drunk","title":"Dead Drunk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness can be found in a well- stocked cabinet of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting an anxiety about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society, as well as an acknowledgment of their influence on humans’ perception of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing drink-fuelled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ alongside obscurities from periodicals such as \u003cem\u003eBlackwood’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, this new collection offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357992034644,"sku":"A8B-33370","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2020_78d8dd19-d9fd-4c3c-9fa1-80a9cf3ceec4.jpg?v=1790813711","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/dead-drunk","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}