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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Hailed by critics, this classic disaster novel about a nuclear holocaust in the United States--now available in a limited Olive Edition--continues to resonate with readers as strongly today as when it was first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War."Alas, Babylon..." Those fateful words herald ...Show more
Ariel - Perennial Classics Edition by Sylvia Plath; Robert Lowell (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | 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 When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel.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
Bearing the Cross - Martin Luther King, Jr. , and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about Dr. Martin Luther King, J ...Show more
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to th ...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
Immortality by Milan Kundera; Peter Kussi (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen living with her parents on a poor African farm. S ...Show more
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In" My Life and Hard times," first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful c ...Show more
No One Writes to the Colonel: And Other Stories (English) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Category: Short Stories | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
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
THURBER CARNIVAL by THURBER JAMES
Category: Humour | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in w ...Show more