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Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
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
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
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it rema ...Show more
Brave New World: With the Essay "Brave New World Revisited" by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetiz ...Show more
DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD by HURSTON ZORA NEALE
Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and a sword in my hands." First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity, this is Zora Neale Hurston's unrestrained account of her rise from childhood poverty in ...Show more
Day Of Creation by Ballard, J G
Category: Modern 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
Category: Flora & Fauna | 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
Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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
Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Category: Personal Development | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this n ...Show more
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] by N. Scott Momaday
Category: Classic | Series: HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS
A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic from N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather's, wedding him to the rh ...Show more
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
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
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