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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: No Category | 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
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Category: Biographies | 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
The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
From the author of the classic novel 'At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determined to destroy the world. Flann O'Brien's third novel, 'The Dalkey Archive' is a riotous depiction of the extraordinary events surrounding theologian and m ...Show more
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
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Category: No Category | 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
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Category: No Category | 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 Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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Category: No Category | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
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
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