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... Buy or find out more →
Journey To The East
$19.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
The Glass Bead Game
$12.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Moby Dick
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless ... Buy or find out more →
Billy Budd And Other Stories
$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Howl And Other Poems
$10.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Illuminations
$17.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
The modernist masterpiecethat is Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of JohnAshbery’s dazzling (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of theliterary events of the ye... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
Coriolanus
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The Enriched Classics series offers readers such features as:
• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
• A chronology of the author’s life and work
• A timeline of significant... Buy or find out more →
The Sheltering Sky
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Under The Volcano
$21.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
The Scarlet Letter
$12.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →