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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...

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...

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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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...

An experimental and colourful novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York...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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild,...

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.

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had...

The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,...

One of the great forerunners of 20th century painting This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of...

Elizabeth Gilbert, the beloved author whose personal reckoning with heartbreak and reinvention captivated millions in Eat, Pray, Love, returns with All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics 'It's reactionary to believe in God in our days,' I said, 'but I am the devil, so I may...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Norman Grubb's The Liberating Secret lies a profound spiritual revelation — that true freedom...

'Devastating' J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN'S COMING OF AGE A TENDER TRIBUTE TO A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the darkest recesses of the human condition are given literary form? The Existential Imagination: From...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone - all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...