Patti Smith's Influential Books
Master And Margarita
$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread throu... More »
Journey To The East
$25.95 (Paperback book / Picador Us )
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Moz... More »
Glass Bead Game
$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East... More »
Heart Of Darkness
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belg... More »
Billy Budd And Other Stories
$8.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The short stories of Herman Melville are considered today to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction. BILLY BUDD, Melville's posthumously published novella, is a classic tale of innocence, evil, and murder th... More »
Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
$27.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
William Blake subtitled his Songs of Innocence and Experience 'Shewing Two Contrary States of the Human Soul'. His overall vision of the human condition is one where good and evil exist interdependently and this is an id... More »
The Wild Boys
$22.95 (Paperback book / Grove Press )
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imaginat... More »
Howl And Other Poems
$14.95 (Paperback book / City Lights )
Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. Customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trial at whi... More »
A Season In Hell
$24.95 (Paperback book / Modern Library )
From Dante's INFERNO to SARTRE'S NO EXIT, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud's A SEASON IN HELL - written when the poet was nineteen - provides ... More »
Illuminations
$25.95 (Paperback book / New Directions )
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Wittgenstein's Poker
$24.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumou... More »
Coriolanus
$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
A peerless general is offered the consulship of Rome after his triumph over the city of Corioles. Too proud to respect the will of the people, however, he soon finds himself despised by the mob, and speaks out passionate... More »
Happy Prince And Other Stories
$9.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffer... More »
The Sheltering Sky
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they are never alone. Michael Hoffman Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more tha... More »
Against Interpretation
$30.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This work is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. First published in 1966, the book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As we... More »
Under The Volcano
$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the De... More »
Dead Souls
$16.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, sav... More »
The Book Of Disquiet
$23.95 (Paperback book / Serpents Tail )
"There is a distinguished mind at work beneath the totally acceptable dullness of clerking. The mind is that of Pessoa. We must be given the chance to learn more about him."-Anthony Burgess, Observer
Seated at his desk i... More »
Raise High The Roof Beam and Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Two long short stories first published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam and Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait... More »
The Scarlet Letter
$19.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair b... More »