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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
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Category: Modern 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
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Category: Fiction | 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
Plexus (The Rosy Crucifiction pt2) by Henry Miller
Category: No Category | 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
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
She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel -- a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them. 'It is impossible to talk about faithfulness and unfa ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Category: Personal Development | 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 Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become ...Show more
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
Category: No Category | 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 Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: No Category | 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 Naked and the Dead (INDENT) by Norman Mailer
Category: No Category | 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