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Drawing together for the first time his poems, letters, essays, songs and photographs, this wide-ranging collection is the essential record of the Beat icon Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of...

For the first time, this volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse...

'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'...

FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and...

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes...

A collection of letters by Burroughs detailing his experiments with the 'Yage' drug, and Ginsberg's responses as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky,...

The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period-from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963--it...

The Letters of William S. Burroughs, new to Penguin Modern Classics and in paperback edition These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

An experimental and colourful novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York...

The best introduction I know of America's liveliest post-war literary movement." -Edmund White Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat...

Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling...

Comparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avantgarde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg- 'a narrative meditation...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A landmark collection of cultural and literary criticism, Claremont...

Dine with beloved writers in this 'utterly charming' (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee Wilson. Agatha Christie's hot bean salad. Jack Kerouac's green...

A haunting portrayal of addiction and a troubled young woman 'She understands Karma, she says- \"What I do, I reap\"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

Seven strange and disturbing stories - computer-generated collaborations based on pieces by different writers, and shaken, stirred and transformed by the poet John Tranter. In a Norwegian fiord, Biggles clashes...

'The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.' - the New York Times On the...

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For more than a century, As a Man Thinketh has been one of the world’s bestselling and most widely loved inspirational works.James Allen’s words have helped millions for more than...

Winner of the Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 'Sharp, elegiac...

A new anthology of 100 years of artists', film makers' and architects' manifestos In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony...

Directing Herbert White is the debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco I'm a nocturnal creature, And I'm here to cheat time. You can see time...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the most celebrated works of literary modernism, The Autobiography of...

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We...

The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote...

'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment in life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' Burrough's cult classic is a...

For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly...

The book titled Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva by the author Patrick Dillon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Kingsley Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than...

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Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling collection presents the profound insights and personal reflections of one of history's most brilliant minds, Albert Einstein. It chronicles...