Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint: 893 books
The Curious George Complete Adventures
70th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This is George. He lived in Africa. He was a good little monkey, and always very curious.” With these words, H. A. and Margret Rey introduced the world to Curious George in 1941, and the world has loved him ever since. The tales of this cheerful and resilient little hero have kept generations...
Mistress of Modernism
The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector.
Peggy Guggenheim was the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant...
Lina & Serge
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and...
Tolkien and the Great War
The Threshold of Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson
As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded...
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
“Evocative and beautifully written, House of Stone . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
“In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon,...
Joy
Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
“A lush Narnia tale for grownups”: The first comprehensive biography of the rebel thinker who married C. S. Lewis (Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize winner).
If Joy Davidman is known at all, it’s as the wife of C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. On her own, she was a poet and...
A Voice from Old New York
A Memoir of My Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
An “entertaining and occasionally even moving” personal recollection by the lawyer, historian, and renowned chronicler of old-money WASP society (The Boston Globe).
At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and stale gossip—had just finished taking on a...
Tarnished Victory
Finishing Lincoln's War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A “full and insightful” account of the Civil War’s final year from the award-winning author of Lee’s Last Retreat (Publishers Weekly).
Beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns of May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865, Tarnished Victory...
Louis Agassiz
Creator of American Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review
Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force...
Darwin's Sacred Cause
How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
An “arresting” and deeply personal portrait that “confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on” (The New York Times Book Review).
It’s difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable...
Illuminations
Essays and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1968
Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.
Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt...
How Not to Get Rich
The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
“Crawford captures the energy, humor, and wide-eyed hope of America’s first ‘angel investor’ with wit and verve . . . A book that is worthy of Twain himself” (Dan Lyons, New York Times–bestselling author of Disrupted).
A Wealth Management Best Business Book of 2017
Mark Twain’s...
Mama
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1987
A “funny [and] touching” novel of an African American woman determined to triumph, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale (Detroit Free Press).
Mildred Peacock is fed up with poverty—and with the jealous rampages of her husband, Crook. When Crook runs over...
by Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions....