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Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and relentless high spirits Myles''Cruiskeen Lawn' became the mos ...Show more
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! Unmistakably autobiographical, Big Sur, Kerouac's ninth novel, was written as the 'King of the Beats' was approaching middle-age and reflects his struggle to come to terms with his own myth. ...Show more
Day Of Creation by Ballard, J G
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and ...Show more
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac's best books -- a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy's extraordinary childhood. Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico w ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky by F.M. Dostoevsky
$30.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Accompanied by notes and commentary, a collection of short works by the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment includes such classics as White Nights, Notes from the Underground, The Eternal Husband, The Gambler, and The Double, among others. Reissue.
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Perhaps the best book to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket. WELCOME TO INTERZONE...Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.'s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with ...Show more
Nexus by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The story of Miller's bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraordinary and legendary menage a trois -- the final installment of the 'Rosy Curifixion' trilogy. 'Goodbye, dear Pocohantas! Goodbye, P.T. Barnum! Goodbye, Street of Early Sorrows and may I never set eyes on you again!' When H ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Plexus (The Rosy Crucifiction pt2) by Henry Miller
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the 1930s to lead the life of a literary bohemian, he called this death of his former existence and his resurrection as a writer a rosy crucifixion. This dramatic transformation provided the leitmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything ...Show more
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel, he know ...Show more