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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  • Robert M. Pirsig

3.84

122 ratings

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

Genres

  • Pirsig, Robert M.
  • Biography
  • Description and travel
  • Fathers and sons
  • Journeys
  • Maintenance and repair
  • Motorcycles
  • Nonfiction
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy and civilization
  • Popular culture
  • Psychology
  • Self
  • Zen Buddhism and science
  • Conduct of life
  • Existentialism
  • Travel
  • Values
  • Social Values
  • Autobiography
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • Zen buddhism
  • Motorcycles, maintenance and repair
  • United states, description and travel
  • Christmas decorations
  • Handicraft
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • Essentialism (Philosophy)
  • Pirsig, Robert M
  • Pirsing, Robert M.
  • General
  • Fathers and sons--united states
  • Ct275.p648 a3 1974
  • 917.3/04/920924 b
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  • Robert M. Pirsig

    6 Sep 1928 - 24 Apr 2017

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Editions

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    Bantam New Age Book

    May 14, 1982

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    Penguin Random House

    2005

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    HarperPerennial Modern Classics

    1974

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    Ayrinti Yayinlari

    Nov 04, 1995

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    Adelphi

    Sep 16, 2008

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    FISCHER Taschenbuch

    Nov 23, 2017

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    Sexto Piso

    2012

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    Editorial Sexto Piso

    September 1, 2004

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    Cuatro Vientos

    1993

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    Fischer (S.), Frankfurt

    February 1, 1992

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    Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt

    January 1, 1978

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    Editions du Seuil

    January 20, 1998

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    Unabridged edition

    Audio Renaissance

    November 14, 2006

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    Bantam Books

    1975

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    25th anniversary ed., with a new introduction by the author.

    Morrow

    1999

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    August 2, 2005

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    Quill ed.

    W. Morrow

    1999

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    Vintage

    1991

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    HarperTorch

    April 25, 2006

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    Abridged edition

    Audio Renaissance

    May 15, 1996

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    25th Anniversary ed.

    Quill

    1999

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    1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed.

    HarperPerennial Modern Classics

    2005

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    HarperCollins

    2009

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    Vintage

    June 6, 1991

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    Special anniversary ed., with a new introd. / by the author.

    Morrow

    1984

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    Morrow

    1974

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2009

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2009

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2009

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2009

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    Demco Media

    Nov 09, 1995

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    Penguin Random House

    2098

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    Penguin Random House

    2011

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    Editions du Seuil, Editions du Seuil/points

    1998

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    Mondadori (IT)

    March 2000

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    Bantam

    1980

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    Bantam Books

    1975

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    Black Swan

    1989

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    Bantam

    1981

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    Bantam

    1981

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    Bantam Doubleday Dell

    November 1981

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    Bodley Head London

    1974

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    Borgen

    1977

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    Bantam Books

    1975

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    Special anniversary ed., with a new introd. / by the author.

    Morrow

    1984

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    Abridged edition

    Audio Renaissance

    May 15, 1996

  • Edition cover

    Special anniversary ed., with a new introd. / by the author.

    Morrow

    1984

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    Bantam

    1975

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    Perfection Learning Prebound

    September 2000