Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle,...

Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)Author: Ludwig WittgensteinPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: March 10, 2009Number of Pages:...

Native Son (Perennial Classics)Author: Richard WrightPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: August 02, 2005Number of Pages: 544 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In the 1960s Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments in which human subjects were given progressively more painful electro-shocks in a careful calibrated series to determine to what...

The sequel to the phenomenal national bestseller and enduring classic Love Story. Can the love of your life appear twice in a lifetime? Oliver Barrett IV found his soulmate in Jenny Cavilleri. Their...

Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezPublisher: Harper Perennial...

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and...

A revised hardcover edition was published by Harper & Brothers in 1957. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the Wilder Family LLC.--Title page verso.Author: Thornton WilderPublisher: Harper...

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)Author: Annie DillardPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 10, 2013Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage:...

Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight...

Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage has served as a clarion call to every American. A collection of eight inspiring, unsung, and...

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count.Author: Richard BradfordPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern...

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a...

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,...

Louise Erdrich?s Tales of Burning Love is a darkly humorous novel of wild romance and heartbreak set against a raging North Dakota blizzard as five Native American women bond over their shared...

In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good...

A beautiful new edition of the classic culinary memoir by Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's romantic partner, with a new introduction by beloved culinary voice Ruth Reichl. Restaurant kitchens have...

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love...

The Art Of The Novel (Perennial Classics)Author: Milan KunderaPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 01, 2003Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Bell Jar chronicles 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 Book of Laughter and ForgettingAuthor: Milan KunderaPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: April 07, 1999Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave?a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the...

The Bridge of San Luis ReyAuthor: Thornton WilderPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Ted HughesAuthor: Sylvia PlathPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsPublication Date:...

Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil...

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality" In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment,...

Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . . Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two...

The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections From The World As Will And Representation And Other Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)Author: Arthur SchopenhauerPublisher: Harper Perennial Modern...

Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written"(The Guardian ), now lovingly reissued from Harper Perennial Modern Classics ?The classic comic novel of the First World War.? ? The New Yorker ? ?A...

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of...