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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics (Paperback)
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just begin ...Show more
Ariel - Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath; Robert Lowell (Foreword by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the bel ...Show more
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
$24.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Fanny Hill' scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of 'corrupting the King's subjects'. This only heightened its allure -- and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of true erotic an ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$24.99 AUD
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 Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Perennial Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer are included in an anthology that features a superb collection of poetry, critical essays, and short fiction, including such classics as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," "The M
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
Justine by Marquis de Sade
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Justine' was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille. Although published anonymously, de Sade was eventually indicted for blasphemy and obscenity (without trial) for the authorship of 'Justine' at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte. Who suffer ...Show more