Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: perennial, classics, philosophy
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 006057058X
ISBN-13: 9780060570583
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds." With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classic
Keywords: classics, perennial, novel, art
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0060093749
ISBN-13: 9780060093747
Every novelist’s work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka’s novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka’s bureaucratized universe. Kundera’s discussion of his own work includes his
Author: Edna Ferber
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: classics, perennial
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060956690
ISBN-13: 9780060956691
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber’s crowning achievement.A rollicking panorama of Chicago’s high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler’s daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: classics, perennial
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060930217
ISBN-13: 9780060930219
The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.
Author: Noel Kingsbury
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: garden, perennial, new
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-04-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0711216088
ISBN-13: 9780711216082
This book advocates a new way of using perennials that works with – rather than against - nature. Noël Kingsbury explores planting schemes designed to suit the existing condition of your garden. If your soil is poor and fast draining, choose tough hardy cultivars that will thrive in these conditions. Try an informal planting style that echoes nature: a structure that’s loose rather than tight, where perennials are blended together rather than grouped in a rigid manner. These environmentally friendly plantings inspired by nature can create exotic, beautiful gardens that need less upkee
Author: Malcolm Lowry
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: classics, perennial, novel, volcano
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060955228
ISBN-13: 9780060955229
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul’s debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul’s life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne’s mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh,
Author: Betty Smith
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classic
Keywords: classics, perennial, morning, joy
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060956860
ISBN-13: 9780060956868
In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and hardship can be overcome by the strength of a loving, loyal relationship. An unsentimental yet uplifting story, Joy in the Morning is a timeless and radiant novel of marriage and young love.
