books by Harper Perennial Modern Classics

books by Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)

Aldous Huxley

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004

Politically Incorrect, Yet Spiritually Relevant
Aldous Huxley was ahead of his time. And yet, he was right where he needed to be. In a time when modern society had not quite caught on to the mind-expanding powers of psycho-active drugs, psychology was still interested in how they might be used in a beneficial way. ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)

Betty Smith

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Brooklyn life in the finest prose
Of all Brooklyn literature, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", has probably the most charm and magnetism for everyone, who reached for it at least once. The story of the Nolan family from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comes to life in the book - and the novel is really ...

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)

Steven Pinker

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

Great book
I found this book to be an interesting and informative read. While I am interested in linguistics (and thus was probably a bit more excited about the topic than the average person), I think this book would also be enjoyable for anyone. Pinker writes in an ...

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

A Gem of Postcolonial Literature
"Jesus is Bangala!" declares Reverend Nathan Price to his ragtag congregation deep in the Congolese jungle. The exclamation is full of irony; in the villagers' native Kikongo, "bangala" means either "precious and dear" or "poisonwood tree," depending on the ...

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

This should be required reading in our schools
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

I saw a man with four hands on the street
And fascinating illusions don't let me go. I loved the book to the bone, to the heart of this exotic village and its psycho people. I was mesmerized by the literature and captured by this uniquely masterpiece of fiction and fact, mixed in a bowl of madness.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Everyone's Favorite . . .
I honestly have no idea how many times I have read this book. I read it first as an assignment in the eighth grade; most recently, at the age of 41, I read it aloud to three of my children. As with the more recent readings that I recall, I choked up a bit at the end as ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, middle-aged narrator Janie Crawford tells the story of her life to date. Janie was raised by her former-slave grandmother, who pushed Janie into a life of quiet conventionality as a farmer's wife. Unsatisfied, however, when a man with ...

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Dystopia, i long for thee
I purchased Brave New World after reading 1984, and while I must confess that I enjoyed Orwell's book just a little bit more, Huxley's work was still an immediately compelling read. I think what I liked best was just how "british" this future was, by which I mean, ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

American Classic
Harper Lee wrote only one novel. And it is probably one of the best books ever written. It's a beautiful story of the South and one incredible and emotional year, all told through the observant and innocent eyes of a little girl called Scout. This is a great book ...

The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

Thomas Pynchon

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

A Beautiful Sad and Funny Book
One day Mrs. Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor of her ex-lover's will. As she proceeds she discovers that the legacy with which she has been entrusted draws her ever deeper into a complex web of conspiracies. Yet what she has discovered may be no ...

Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Reqd reading in High School
I remember reading this in High School and I have been looking to pick it up for a re-read.

Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)

Irvin D. Yalom

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000

Magnificent!
I am really unclear as to how this book might have received anything less than 5 stars... It was recommended to me by my psychotherapy supervisor, at my request to read something a little more digestible than our textbook on said subject. I began reading and was ...

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

Lao Tzu

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

BEWARE OF CLUELESS REVIEWERS!
The naysaying reviewers did not bother to read this book through. Nowhere does it claim to be a literal translation, and following the lessons are the author's notes, explaining exactly what he did or didn't add, and why, as well as references to what was replaced ...

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

To Live is to Love
"Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, not how to love." -Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving I picked up this book by chance at the Miami ...