Back to School - Dorm Classics
There are 26 books in this aisle.
There are 26 books in this aisle.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus  
Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became...
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Handmaid's Tale, despite its scenarios of great despair, is ultimately a hopeful book — Offred, and others, simply cannot be human without the possibility of hope, and therein lies the strength of the resistance. Twenty years after it was first...
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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
Powells.com Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com...
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and...
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
Powells.com Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
Publisher Comments An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the...
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Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
Publisher Comments Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing...
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Second Sex (89 Edition)
by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about...
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Cat's Cradle (Large Format) (63 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes....
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick This is my favorite out of all Margaret Atwood's books. It tells the story so convincingly of the cruelty and competition between young girls as viewed by the now older narrator Elaine. Complex and disturbing, Cat's Eye is a momentous book from one of...
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Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Publisher Comments The Bell Jarchronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity...
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures....
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Still Life With Woodpecker (Large Format) (80 Edition)
by Tom Robbins
Publisher Comments Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and...
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Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Synopsis Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems....
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Anarchy for the Masses: The Disinformation Guide to the Invisibles
by Patrick Neighly and Kereth Cowe-Spigai Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references....
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Siddhartha : a New Translation (00 Edition)
by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river...
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Will To Power (67 Edition)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others....
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse Publisher Comments With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberation Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a...
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Ultimate Xmen Rev Edition
by Dk Publisher Comments Following exciting new developments in the X-Men universe, this revised edition of Ultimate X-Men includes the best of the two feature films and the animated television series. Watch the evolution of the X-Men superheroes from their conception in the...
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