# Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism

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- Authors: [Hans Fallada](https://www.bookquiver.com/hans-fallada)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-02-15

## Description

'... I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me before: coffee is my friend!' Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories and are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic. This book includes A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism and Three Years of Life .

## Editions

### Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-671-8
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB