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Beneath The Underdog by Charles Mingus
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Category: Music | Series: Canons Ser.
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It tells ...Show more
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the ...Show more
Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Piñol; Cheryl Leah Morgan (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At f ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
Forever Words - The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A treasure-trove of never-before-published poems and lyrics from the legendary Johnny Cash.
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Iced by Ray Shell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction
If the War Goes On ... - Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Canons Ser.
Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the ...Show more
L. A. Woman by Eve Babitz
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle - one with the promises of youth, the other with the ...Show more
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
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Category: Science | Series: Canons Ser.
'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.' Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more