Harper Perennial imprint: 588 books
Montmartre
Paris's Village of Art and Sin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris...
The Perfect Meal
In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely.
Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are...
Diana Mosley
Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler....
The Viceroy's Daughters
The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Based on unpublished letters and diaries, The Viceroy's Daughters is a riveting portrait of three spirited and wilful women who were born at the height of British upper-class wealth and privilege.
The oldest, Irene, never married but pursued her passion for foxes, alcohol, and married men....
The Genius of Jane Austen
Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrne's debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the world's most beloved authors.
Originally published by Bloomsbury...
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An American Father's Roman Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland was worried. The thing that most bothered him was not the erotic heat of America’s youth culture, but the lovelessness of its sex. Offered the chance to live and teach in Rome, Roger and his wife, Debra, seized the opportunity...
Back Then
Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege...
Literary Rogues
A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.
Literary Rogues is a wildly funny and illuminating...
by Robert V. Remini
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Robert V. Remini's prize-winning, three-volume biography Life of Andrew Jackson won the National Book Award on its completion in 1984 and is recognized as one of the greatest lives of a U.S. President. In this meticulously crafted single-volume abridgment, Remini captures the essence of the life and...
Saratoga Trunk
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.
Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine,...
by Jason Mulgrew
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Download, for free!, a hilarious essay by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mulgrew, plus get a sneak peek from his new book, 236 Pounds of Class Vice President, available February 12, 2013.
For a few "glorious" weeks, Jason Mulgrew's first book, Everything Is Wrong with Me,...
The Cabala and The Woman of Andros
Two Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“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 spotlight for the gifts that they are—memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding Wilder’s genius.” – Penelope Niven,...
Under An Afghan Sky
A Memoir of Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village...
The Universe
Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees—to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor.
In The Universe, today's most influential science...