books by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

books by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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Warriner's English Grammar and Composition: Fifth Course (Liberty Edition)
John E. Warriner

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)

T. S. Eliot

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991

Truly, one of the giants
When you think of the best poets ever, T.S. Eliot is one of those that comes to mind. His work is well crafted, intelligent, beautifully written, and has a flow to it that few poets can match. And this is a fine collection for the Eliot lover or for the reader ...

By the rivers of Babylon: A novel

Nelson DeMille

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978

Solid Early Work
If you are a fan of military fiction this is the book for you. I could not tell that Demille was an early author in this book at all. I learned a great deal about Israel that I didn't know in this novel. This was not my favorite Demille book, but it is solid as ...

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mircea Eliade

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987

A brilliant introduction to the study of religion
I decided to read this book for a religion-course I'm taking, and I must say I'm happy I did! Mircea Eliade was a Rumanian historian of religions, philosopher and author, in addition to being a vaguely religious man himself. This book was written to serve as an ...

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Giorgio Bassani

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (A Harvest/HBJ Book), 1977

haunting love story
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about discovering one's three rich heritages (Italian and Jewish and literary). And it is a story about a boy becoming a writer. There must be thousands such coming-of-age stories; thousands of stories about ...

t zero (A Harvest/HBJ BookH)

Italo Calvino

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976

One of the finest works of post-modernist fiction.
Calvino is one of the masters of post-modernism, and his tales fiction highlight one of the most fundamental concerns of the movement: challenging notions of a "reality". t zero reigns as Calvino's finest, most compelling work

English Composition and Grammar : Complete Course

John E. Warriner

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988

Indispensable
I was issued the 1963 version of this book in high school during the 1970's. I won't let it out of my sight! I brought it to college, and used it to teach my kids what they weren't learning in school. Now my daughter's SAT tutor wants her to have her own copy. I'm ...

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982

Book redefines classics
I did not enjoy parts of the book because of the style of writing. The part of the book that was enjoyable is when Celie and her sister shared numerous letters. Celie's sister, Nettie, is in Africa while Celie is in America. Celie and her sister have not seen each ...

Reading and Writing about Short Fiction
Edward Proffitt

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988

READING AND WRITING FICTION provides an introduction to writing and an introduction to fiction with an anthology of eight-six stories.

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1973

One of the ten best science fiction novels of all time
In this book, Arthur Clarke set the bar for the unknown alien probe story very high. The setting is that humans have settled Mercury, Luna, Mars, some asteroids, and some Jovian and Saturnian moons. Each group sends an Ambassador to the United Planets, which meets on ...

Charles A. Lindbergh and the battle against American intervention in World War II

Wayne S Cole

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

Scholarly, well written and illuminating
Today we're used to the ritual of the media building a 'star' and then sacrificing them on the altar of publicity. Diana. John Lennon. Lindbergh, the son of a WW1 Congressman, was one of the first to go. The celebrity that followed his epic flight forced him to ...

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book)

P. D. Ouspensky

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1965

A Must Read
Have you been searching for spiritual truth and have had to traverse the myriad of paths? This is the book to read as it contains what one truly needs to know in one book. The teachings contained in this book plants the seeds for the expansion of mind for higher ...

The Robber Bridegroom

Eudora Welty

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978

Astonishing
This lovely novella introduced Eudora Welty to the world. Now it can introduce you to Eudora Welty. A raucous, genre-bending mixture of historical fiction, romance novel, and tall tale -- all shot through with the compassion and psychological subtlety for which Welty ...

The Kingdom: Arabia & The House of Sa'ud

Robert Lacey

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1982

At least a B+, if not an A-
At the beginning of Mr. Lacey's monumental work he relates a conversation he had with a Georgetown educated member of the House of Saud: "I have lived in the Kingdom over 30 years, yet if I was to put down on paper how my family and this country worked, I would be ...

English Grammar and Composition (Third Course)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986

A textbook of grammar and writing. Includes practice exercises aimed to improve the learner's spoken and written English.