Writers on... Drink: (A Book of Quotations, Poems and by M. M. Owen

By M. M. Owen

Writers on... Drink' illustrates the complicated, humorous and fraught relationships among writers and this such a lot human of vices.  This number of innovations on alcohol, poured onto the web page, provides a style of the literary world's maximum insights on imbibing.  Pens-down, and bottoms-up!

The 'Writers on…' sequence is a suite of extracts, anecdotes and coffee philosophical musings from the world's most advantageous authors. This ebook of costs, inspirational poems, letters, and quips, celebrates writers who've someone, artistic outlook at the global; on matters from 'drink' to 'death', and 'love' to 'libraries'. beginning with historic civilisations and relocating in the direction of the current day, this anthology of highbrow, inspirational and infrequently humorous costs, presents a desirable perception right into a significant array of topics.

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