The Portable Beat Reader
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The Dharma Bums
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop …
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)
Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburge…
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The Collected Poems
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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Actual Air
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intense regard for the past. He comes on like a prankster, restocking the imperial orations of Wallace Stevens and the byzantine monologues of John… -
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Seven Plays
Includes "Buried Child", "Curse of the Starving Class" , "The Tooth of Crime", "La Turista" , "Savage Loge", and "True West".
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Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright S…