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The book describes in detail the psychoactive substance MDMA (ecstasy), the people that use it and the law concerning it, all enhanced through the lens of the author's personal experience. Subsequent revised versions were renamed Ecstasy and the Dance Culture (1995) [1] and Ecstasy Reconsidered (1997). The book is available online for free. [2] [3]
Ecstasy was the first book of Couperus that was published by L.J. Veen, later his regular publisher. Couperus received a wage of 550 guilders for the first edition. [1] Ecstasy was first published in the Dutch literary magazine The Gids. [2]
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone.Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor.
The American rock band My Chemical Romance was named after the book, after the bassist, Mikey Way, was shown the book while working in a Barnes & Noble before the band was formed. The phrase "Chemical Romance" caught his eye and he was shocked nobody had used it as a band name before, prompting him to use it for his own band's name. [ 6 ]
Ecstasy most often refers to: Ecstasy (emotion), ... Ecstasies, a 1989 book by Carlo Ginzburg; Ecstasy (comics), a super villain in the Marvel Comics Universe
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy is a historical study of the different forms of shamanism around the world written by the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade. It was first published in France by Librarie Payot under the French title of Le Chamanisme et les techniques archaïques de l'extase in 1951.
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman is the alleged tell-all style autobiography of Austrian-born actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, ghostwritten by Leo Guild and Cy Rice and first published in 1966. The book spent four weeks at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1966.
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is a 2011 Canadian film adaptation of the short story "The Undefeated" from the best-selling book Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who smuggles ecstasy from Amsterdam. Kristin Kreuk plays his love interest, Heather Thompson.