Harperperennial imprint: 267 books

A Cargo Of Cat

Short Story

by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

After his ship springs a leak during a voyage, a sailor details the amusingly bizarre dangers that one can face when transporting a cargo of cats across the open seas. This light-hearted short story by Ambrose Bierce was originally published in The Wasp, a magazine he edited. HarperPerennial...
by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

Songs of Innocence and Experience brings together two books of poetry by William Blake that delve into these two opposing states of the human soul. His Songs of Innocence are often cheerful and sweet and always demonstrate the purity of youth, as Blake explores themes of freedom, happiness, loss and...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012

A Charles Dickens Christmas features four stories from the Victorian storyteller that encapsulate the true spirit of the holidays. Tales such as The Chimes, a New Year’s story of redemption, The Cricket on the Hearth, a fairy tale of home, The Battle of Life, an inspiring love story, and The Haunted...
by Daniel Defoe, Peter Longueville
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

This special collection brings together Daniel Defoe’s two adventure-filled novels about the now famous character, Robinson Crusoe, and Peter Longueville’s castaway story, The English Hermit. In The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the titular character finds himself the sole survivor of...
by Morgan Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan is Morgan Robertson’s 1898 novella about the unsinkable ship Titan, which goes down after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Disgraced former naval lieutenant John Rowland is working as a deckhand on the Titan when it strikes an iceberg and capsizes. Saving...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ground breaking story follows a number of characters through their vastly different journeys and disparate points of view. Whether on the road to freedom travelling the Underground Railroad, or remaining in captivity, Stowe’s narrative exposed the bleak and harrowing nature...

Life In The Backwoods

A sequel to Roughing it in the Bush

by Susanna Moodie
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

Written as a continuation of her sensational 1852 text, Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie’s Life in the Backwoods continues the narrative of her experience as a settler in mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada. By relating her own experiences and those of the community of pioneers also living...

Selected Works Of George Eliot

Seven-book Bundle

by George Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014

George Eliot, a pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, publishing seven major novels and several translations during her career. The Selected Works of George Eliot includes all seven of the author’s novels: Adam Bede, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the...

A Little Cloud

Short Story

by James Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Little Chandler spends dinner with his friend Ignatius Gallaher reflecting on his own failed dreams as compared to Ignatius’s successes with London Press. Once home, Little Chandler begins to compare his wife to the exotic women Gallaher has encountered on his travels, and realizes that even in...

The Peasant Marey

9781443448208 Short Story

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

While serving time in a prison camp, a man witnesses the savage beating of another prisoner. A fellow inmate, who comes from wealth in his home country of Poland, comments on the brutality of the peasant prisoners, leading the young man to reflect on an event from his childhood that had demonstrated...

Erotic Classics I

Kama Sutra, The Memoirs Of Fanny Hill and Others

by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Savor classic erotic literature from throughout the ages with Erotic Classics I and II. Erotic Classics I includes Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra, The Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland, Justine by Marquis de Sade, Indiana by George Sand, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, Emile Zola’s Nana,...

Classic Mysteries

The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Murders In The Rue

by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Explore the origins of the mystery genre with these seven classic tales of suspense and intrigue from Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, John Buchan, and others. Classic Mysteries includes: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,”, “The Purloined Letter,” The Moonstone,...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Get lost with five classic tales of castaways. Classic Cast-Away Stories includes Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The English Hermit by Peter Longueville, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe,...

The Story Of An Hour

Short Story

by Kate Chopin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title...
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