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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
$38.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | 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
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$26.99 NZD
Category: World 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
Tao Te Ching - A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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 Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fear ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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 Naked and the Dead (INDENT) by Norman Mailer
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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
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