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Author: Maugham, William Somerset
Title: Narrow Corner
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Pages: 314 pp.
Date: 1932
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism; Exoticism; Opium
Annotation:Opium-smoking appears to give an English doctor a psychological and philosophical detachment from life which allows him to leave his practice to treat a wealthy patient in the Malay Archipelago—a "narrow corner" of the earth.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.


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