Harper Perennial modern classics

Portrays life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.

Presents ten stories of horror and the supernatural by twentieth-century American writer H.P. Lovecraft, selected and edited by author Joyce Carol Oates.

A 1939 novel based on the biblical story of the Exodus, blending the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of African-American folklore and song, and tracing his life from birth to emancipator of his people.

Bernard Marx becomes a citizen in an utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, and presents the social climate in 1958, and the threats against personal freedoms that seemed to be precursers to the novel's empty civilization.

Presents German physicist Werner Heisenberg's 1958 text in which he discusses the philosophical implications and social consequences of quantum mechanics and other physical theories.

Psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm examines love in all its aspects, including romantic, brotherly, erotic, self, and parental love, as well as love for God, and offers advice on how people can develop their hidden capacities for love.

"In Brooklyn's ruthless urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life, and must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness"--Provided by publisher.

A fictionalized account of Julius Caesar's exploits in Rome.

Contains, in sequence, all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.

Mary Turner, the bored and frustrated wife of an unsuccessful farmer in white-ruled South Africa, sets a course for disaster when she becomes attracted to Moses, a virile African servant.