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Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
$28.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
$26.99 NZD
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
Flow: Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
$45.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 Fyodor Dostoevsky by F.M. Dostoevsky
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$26.99 NZD
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
Nexus by Henry Miller
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The story of Miller's bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraordinary and legendary menage a trois -- the final installment of the 'Rosy Curifixion' trilogy. 'Goodbye, dear Pocohantas! Goodbye, P.T. Barnum! Goodbye, Street of Early Sorrows and may I never set eyes on you again!' When H ...Show more
Plexus (The Rosy Crucifiction pt2) by Henry Miller
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the 1930s to lead the life of a literary bohemian, he called this death of his former existence and his resurrection as a writer a rosy crucifixion. This dramatic transformation provided the leitmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything ...Show more
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
$24.99 NZD
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
Sexus(The Rosy Crucifiction pt1) by Henry Miller
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
This is the extraordinarily candid tale of Miller's sexual escapades amongst the low-life of Brooklyn, banned in Great Britain and America for nearly twenty years after its first publication in 1949. 'I was approaching my thirty-third year, the age Christ was crucified. A wholly new life lay before me, ...Show more
Tao Te Ching - A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao?the basic principle of the universe ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroi ...Show more