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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, (Harper's modern classics)

130 reviews
Mark Twain

Harper & Brothers, 1930

Always
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A tree grows in Brooklyn,

537 reviews
Betty Smith

Harper & Brothers, 1943

My favorite book
To all the one star reviewers out there complaining about the tedious details in the book. Betty Smiths gift for detail is what makes the book so wonderful. I was fascinated with this book as a kid. I even tried to recreate the stale bread cutlets with ketchup sauce that Mama Nolan made!To this day, if I find a book about turn of the century NY tenements I will stop everything to read it. I've ...

Profiles in courage

83 reviews
John F Kennedy

Harper & Brothers, 1957

All about doing what's right
This book is well written, engaging and tells stories of courageous political leaders. Once you pick this book up you won't be able to put it down, and it will stick with you for years. He won the Pulitzer for a reason; we all need a reminder that doing what's right but unpopular leaves a far richer legacy than making decisions that win short term allies.

The Sermon on the Mount

1 review
Emmet Fox

Harper & Brothers, 1938

The Sermon on the Mount
This remarkable book reveals a source of universal power that is rightfully yours. "This Power," states Dr. Fox. "is the real power source of all things that exist. It needs only to flow into your being and trasform itself into health, into true prosperity, into inspiration, or into anything else you may be needing. Ths Power is there. It is present everywhere. It belongs to nobody in particular ...

Black Boy
Richard Wright

Harper & Brothers, 1945

Economics in one lesson,

111 reviews
Henry Hazlitt

Harper & Brothers, 1946

If you read only one economics book, read this
This book, first published in 1946, explains common fallacies (a false or mistaken idea) that are particularly common in the field of economics and public policy. At the very start of the book Mr. Hazlitt explains: Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they ...

The carrot seed;

35 reviews
Ruth Krauss

Harper & Brothers, 1945

don't give up!
This book had a huge impact on me as a child. Everyone told the boy his carrot seed would not come up. Even the adults. My reaction was this: adults know everything, so why is this boy still trying? I was truly surprised when the carrot seed sprouted, and I clapped and cheered. My next reaction was this: maybe *I* shouldn't give up, even when other people tell me to. This is one of the ...

The interpretation of financial statements,

15 reviews
Benjamin Graham

Harper & Brothers, 1937

Historically significant look at the balance sheet
What this book is: The 1936 edition of "The Interpretation of Financial Statements" by Benjamin Graham, the father of the modern academic discipline of financial analysis. In brief chapters with examples, Graham explains different entries you might find on a corporation's public balance sheet, how those assets and liabilities (debits and credits) add up, and what the meaning is with regard ...

Black Boy : A Record of Childhood and Youth

153 reviews
Richard Wright

Harper & brothers, 1945

Mississippi God Damn
Every time I read a book about the plight of blacks in the South in the early part of the 20th century as Jim Crow society solidified I have to shutter in disgust. I have just finished reading communist Harry Haywood's autobiography Black Bolshevik. I have read Malcolm X's words on the fate of his forebears in the post-bellum South and now I have read Richard Wright's autobiographical sketch ...

Native Son

181 reviews
Richard Wright

Harper & Brothers, 1940

There are still resonances of the Bigger Thomas in American society
This is one of Wright's most important novels. It tells the story of the short life of Bigger Thomas, perhaps as an allegorical prototype of the typical life of a Black Chicagoan, or indeed maybe the archetype for all young black men in America, where the forces of society press upon them to live fast and die young, or live long and end up in prison or be ignored and live a social death on the ...

Men of iron,

18 reviews
Howard Pyle

Harper & Brothers, 1904

Medieval chivalry
This was an excellent book about a youth named Myles Falworth, the son of a wrongfully exiled blind Lord. The book is about Myles quest to restore his family's honor and safety. It follows well the customs of medieval England, emphasizing bravery and honor, courage and mercy. It is an inspiring tale, and few young readers would not be able to learn a thing or two about life from Myles. I ...

Farmer Boy (Little House)

73 reviews
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953

Almanzo's Childhood: Preparing for His Life and His Wife (His Bride)!
Of all the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books, FARMER BOY is, hands down, my very favorite. The book covers a portion of the boyhood of Almanzo Wilder, who was to grow up to become Laura's husband. Almanzo grew up on a thriving, successful farm in New York state. Almanzo's father was especially known and respected for raising top-quality horses. Almanzo's mother had her own home ...

Little fur family

31 reviews
Margaret Wise Brown

Harper & Brothers, 1946

A psychedelic freakout of a kids book
This has to got be one of the strangest, coolest, most out-there kids books ever. I mean, what exactly ARE the little fur family? The dad looks like some kind of furry owl, the mom might be some sort of feminine echidna, the boy looks like a bear, and the grandpa I'm pretty sure is an airedale. ...Pretty sure. Sometimes the book rhymes, sometimes it doesn't; sometimes the writing is ...

The Perennial Philosophy

35 reviews
Aldous Huxley

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945

Universality of the mystical experience
Culled from Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist sources, Huxley makes the case for the universality of certain religious doctrines grounded in a common mystical experience. This work by Huxley established him as one of the greatest lay theologians. It is a work of syncretism of the highest order. Huxley was raised as a Christian, yet was a mystical seeker across religious ...

Sister Carrie: A novel

105 reviews
Theodore Dreiser

Harper & Brothers, 1912

Fractured Fairy Tale and/or Horror Story on Capitalism
"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth." Mahatma Gandhi "She (Carrie Meeber) wanted pleasure, she wanted position, and yet she was confused as to what these things might be." p. 145 "Sister Carrie" Critics may scoff at the immorality of the main characters, the persistently subtle, yet always stinging slams at ...

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy

17 reviews
Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Harper & brothers, 1947

A classic
For economy,political science, law and sociology students, this is the mandatory Schumpeter title.

Giants in the earth;: A saga of the prairie,

32 reviews
O. E Rølvaag

Harper & Brothers, 1928

The true story of homesteading the prairie
There are better-known stories of the homesteading experience, such as Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series, but none of them hit as close to the truth as did O.E. Rolvaag in "Giants in the Earth." It is translated into something of an epic style, somewhat like James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking series, but its subject matter almost demands such a ...

Acres of diamonds,

33 reviews
Russell Herman Conwell

Harper & Brothers, 1943

Regular People Can Accomplish Great Things
At 64 pages from cover-to-cover, "Acres of Diamonds" is probably the shortest book I've read in a long time. Written by Baptist minister and founder of Temple University, Russell H. Conwell, this book originated as one of his sermons, which was so popular that it was published as a book. "Acres of Diamonds" is based on a parable told to Conwell by an Arab guide during a trip to the Middle ...

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