Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
An insurance salesman desperately tries to recapture his youth in this “charming” comic novel by the iconic British author (The New York Times).
George Bowling is having a crisis. Not a loud, unsightly one, but a small, desperate one. His days are occupied by an unfulfilling insurance job;...
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1950
A pious young woman grapples with a loss of memory—and of faith—in this sharp, witty novel by the author of 1984 and Animal Farm.
Dorothy is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare, rector of St. Athelstan’s in Depression-era Suffolk, England. She serves as a dutiful housekeeper, performs...
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected.
Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life—the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability....
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Narrative Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly).
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that...
by Antonia Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A lively tale of “pitch-perfect suspense” set in eighteenth-century England—one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Crime/Mystery Novels of the Year.
Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award
London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t...
Revolutionaries
A New History of the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker).
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of...
To the Gates of Richmond
The Peninsula Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” (The New York Times Book Review).
From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s...
The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times).
It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and...
by Ira Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In an era of partisanship and shifting political labels, a fascinating look at just how “liberal” President John F. Kennedy actually was—or wasn’t.
“America, meet the real John F. Kennedy.” —Washington Times
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Lyndon Johnson...
Time Reborn
From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos—“at once entertaining, thought-provoking, fabulously ambitious and fabulously speculative” (The New York Times Book Review).
What is time?
This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science...
Night in Shanghai
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is “historical fiction at its best” (Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered).
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After...
A Comrade Lost and Found
A Beijing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A “suspenseful, elegantly written” account of the author’s return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing...
by James S. Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.” —John McCain
Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign...
The First Total War
Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).
The twentieth century is usually seen as “the century of total war.” But as the historian...