Harper Perennial Modern Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit "A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature...
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here...
Grove Press, December 2013. Trade Paperback. Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but...
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand...
Picador, February 2009. Trade Paperback. An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man."
Scribner, May 1986. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and a 4mm closed tear on the jacket. Price clipped. minor foxing on the cloth spine. Non authorial dedication on the front free end paper.
Plume, April 1983. Trade Paperback. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that...
City Lights Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds...
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well...
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 1991. Trade Paperback. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and...
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1991. Trade Paperback. Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates...
Vintage Books, September 1993. Trade Paperback. A philosophical meditation, on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. It traces the topography of desire.
City Lights Publishers, November 2015. Hardcover. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of "A Coney Island of the Mind," he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that...
Harmony, February 1990. Hardcover. London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts...
Penguin Press, July 2018. Hardcover. Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book and Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 The New York Times bestseller. From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills...
Grove Press, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the...
