Absinthe online

Throughout the history absinthe has been the favorite drink of many outstanding and often eccentric people: writers, artists, musicians, actors, revolutionaries etc. However, it seems that those, who devoted their lives to literature, were most inspired by the ‘Green Muse’. Among the latter one could name:

Aleister Crowley.
Crowley is famous for writing “The book of law”. He was known to be a loyal lover of the ‘Green Fairy’, as well as a heroin and opium addict.

Arthur Rimbaud.
Being considered one of the greatest French poets, Rimbaud was also famous for drinking a great amount of absinthe and maintaining a homosexual relationship with Paul Marie Verlaine.

Charles Baudelaire.
He referred to the ‘Green Fairy’ in his well-known poem “Get drunk” and was believed to be an avaricious absinthe drinker.

Edgar Allen Poe.
Many believe that absinthe consumption contributed a lot into writing his weird scary stories and inspired him to depict mysterious events and places.

Emile Zola.
The famous writer truly enjoyed drinking a glass of the green liquor. It gave him distraction from the problems he had, which he appreciated a lot.

Ernest Hemingway.
The writer fancied the spirit a lot and featured it in his works “For whom the bell tolls” and “Hills like white elephants”. After absinthe was banned Hemingway used to get it from either Spain or Cuba.

Guy de Maupassant.
Maupassant was a great French short story writer, who depicted the flavor and sensations of the ‘Green Fairy’ in the streets of Paris in one of his works called “A queer night in Paris”.

Jack London.
The celebrated American novelist famous for picturesque descriptions of the nature’s formidable power was fond of absinthe like many others of his time.

Mark Twain.
The creator of the legendary stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn didn’t mind to damp a glass or two of the green-colored liquor.

Oscar Wilde.
He used to say that absinthe consumption improves the creative process and was known to use the drink often and avidly. It also was the outstanding writer who divided absinthe drinking into three stages: the first one is exactly like drinking any alcohol, at the second stage one starts seeing scary things, and at the third stage one sees all kinds of beautiful desirable things.

Paul Marie Verlaine.
He was a confirmed absinthe user who didn’t give up drinking it even on his death bed. In his early years Verlaine praised the spirit for its numerous positive effects, though later on he blamed it for his own sins.