Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
Forty Stories
New Writing from Harper Perennial
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Forty Stories is the first long-form work published under the aegis of Fifty-Two Stories, the short fiction blog of Harper Perennial. Since its inception in 2009, Fifty-Two Stories (www.fiftytwostories.com) has hosted work by writers both new and established, including Neil Gaiman, Louise Erdrich,...
by Harper Perennial
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
‘Sadopaideia’ is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement...
by Harper Perennial
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
‘The Way of a Man with a Maid’ is a foray into pleasure, pain, lesbianism and etiquette – told from the viewpoint of a quintessential Edwardian gent. Having first appeared in Parisian journals around the turn of the century, it is widely acknowledged to be a defining example of the erotic genre,...
The Linwoods
or, "Sixty Years Since" in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Margot Livesey, award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
A compelling historical novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence...
The Perennial Philosophy
An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley
"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in...
by Walter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
‘My Secret Life’ is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system – encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour. Would you undress with the curtains open? A champagne-drinking Victorian traveller, Walter is lascivious,...
by Charles Devereaux
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
‘Venus in India’ is set in colonial Hindustan, and reveals the story of Captain Devereux, a man who finds it hard to keep his hands off other soldiers’ wives. Exploring the fine art of menage a trois, each sinuous line provides proof that tropical heat and erotic lust are perfect bedfellows....
Antigone
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg. Powerfully portraying the clash between civic and...
Green Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between...
Black Sun
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural environment.
Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and...
by John Cleland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
‘Fanny Hill’ scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of ‘corrupting the King's subjects’. This only heightened its allure – and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of...
The Mind
Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange Everything
Markingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org...
by Marquis de Sade
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
‘Justine’ was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille. Although published anonymously, de Sade was eventually indicted for blasphemy and obscenity (without trial) for the authorship of ‘Justine’ at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte....
Culture
Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times*, on* This Will Change Everything
Launchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper...