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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Category: Non-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)
Category: Gift | 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 When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel.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
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Category: No Category | 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: Classics | 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
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
Category: No Category | 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
Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
First published in 1959, 'Emmanuelle' inspired the most successful x-rated film of all time, spawning an industry in imitations and worldwide notoriety. Can sharing only add to your pleasure? Emmanuelle is curious. Her husband Jean married her for her 'erotic genius', not to possess her. The only soluti ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Category: Fiction | 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: Self-Help | 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
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Gift | Series: Perennial Classics
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
Growing up in New Guinea - A Comparative Study of Primitive Education by Margaret Mead
Category: No Category | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishin ...Show more
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] by N. Scott Momaday
Category: Classics | 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