Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
by Anaïs Nin, Joaquin Nin-Culmell
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A revealing look at the life of this “extraordinary and unconventional writer” during the mid-1920s (The New York Times Book Review).
In this volume of her earlier series of personal diaries, Anaïs Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage—and nearly drove her...
by Anaïs Nin, Joaquin Nin-Culmell
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The diarist’s account of her life in the early 1920s explores “the conflict she felt between artistic longings and her pre-ordained female fate” (The Detroit News).
Continuing the journey of self-education and self-discovery she began in Linotte, Anaïs Nin discloses a part of her life that...
Always the Young Strangers
The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.
Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1972
The fourth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1971
The third volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
This candid volume from the renowned diarist covers her years of struggle, and eventual triumph, as an author in America during World War II.
“Transcending mere self-revelation . . ....
William James
In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.
Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1975
The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
The second volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients—as well as...
Incest
From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1993
The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others—including her own father.
Anaïs Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life....
Feeding on Dreams
Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
“A beautifully crafted, searing memoir” about fleeing Chile after the Pinochet coup, and the exile’s yearning for home (Kirkus Reviews).
“A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced view of United States–Latin American politics and relations...
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...
An American Requiem
God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).
James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest,...
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
A “brilliant” examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian (Newsweek).
Over the course of two centuries, the power of the president of the United States has grown exponentially. From George Washington to...