Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • Native Son

    “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.”…

    $18.00
  • Native Son (Abridged)

    Now an HBO Film!“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of…

    $16.99
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    “One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia…

    $18.99
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like….

    $16.99
  • Tao Te Ching

    The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen MitchellIn eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and…

    $14.99
  • The Art of the Novel

    “Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic …The book has its author’s familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony.”— The New Yorker”Every novelist’s work contains an implicit vision of the…

    $14.99
  • The Bell Jar

    A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness…

    $17.00
  • The Cabala and The Woman of Andros

    “For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the…

    $14.99
  • The Crying of Lot 49

    “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco ExaminerThe Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas,…

    $14.99
  • The Dispossessed

    “One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen KingFrom the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two…

    $15.99
  • The Eighth Day

    Thornton Wilder’s renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on unique sources as Wilder’s unpublished letters, handwritten…

    $18.99
  • The Odyssey of Homer

    Homer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond LattimoreA classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War—and…

    $16.99