Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [75th Anniversary Ed]

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickA special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.

    From the…

    $17.00
  • Black Boy

    Richard Wright’s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South is a profound indictment–a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When…

    $18.99
  • Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

    A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright’s powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.When it…

    $17.99
  • Brave New World

    Now a Peacock Original SeriesNow more than ever: Aldous Huxley’s enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit “A masterpiece. … One of the…

    $15.99
  • Cheaper by the Dozen

    One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together.What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father—a…

    $15.99
  • Democracy in America: Abridged Edition

    The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America’s culture and people.Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most…

    $16.99
  • Eight Men

    “[Wright’s] landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart.” –James Baldwin Here, in these powerful stories, Richard…

    $16.99
  • Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

    The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume.Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid…

    $18.99
  • Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

    The shorter works of one of the world’s greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from UndergroundThe short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing…

    $16.99
  • Great Short Works of Mark Twain

    Selected works of humour and criticism by a revered American master.Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of scepticism, caustic wit…

    $16.99
  • Great Short Works of Stephen Crane

    The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in…

    $13.99
  • Letters from the Earth

    “The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916…The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination…

    $16.99