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The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten eart ...Show more
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith. Judith Hearne, a Catholic middle-aged spinster, moves into yet another bed-sit in Belfast. A socially isolated woman of modest means, she teaches piano to a handful of students to pass the day. Her only s ...Show more
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Category: Classic | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of ...Show more
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-War French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. An epic romance, a philosophical argument and an honest and searing portra ...Show more
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Category: Literature | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion--in a blue-colla ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead (INDENT) by Norman Mailer
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, 'The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in bat ...Show more
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an e ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Henry Louis (AFT) Edwidge (FRW); Gates Zora Neale; Danticat Hurston
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
With a Foreword by Edwidge Danticat and an Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wi ...Show more
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwaverin ...Show more
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood s ...Show more