Harcourt Brace & Company

Overview

Works:	1,393 works in 2,073 publications in 1 language and 45,192 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Picture books Domestic fiction Historical fiction Stories in rhyme Folklore Fantasy fiction Nursery rhymes Short stories
Roles:	Publisher, Correspondent, Printer
Classifications:	PR6045.O72, E

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Harcourt Brace & Company

From Main Street to Stockholm : letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919-1930 by Sinclair Lewis( Book )
Some experiences by Alfred Harcourt( Book )
A Report to educators on teaching films survey by Philip A Knowlton( Book )
A history of Harcourt Brace & Company : 75 years of publishing excellence( Book )
by Kenneth Dodson( )

Albert C. Barnes papers by Albert C Barnes( Book )
From Main Street to Stockholm; letters, 19l2-9-1930. Edited and with and introd. by Harrison Smith by Sinclair Lewis( Book )
Esther Shephard Papers by Esther Shephard( )
Complete annotated backlist catalog through ... by Harcourt Brace & Company( )
Velma Vara Varner papers by Velma Vara Varner( )
Naomi Lane Babson collection by Naomi Lane Babson( )
Papers of William Faulkner by William Faulkner( )
[Isla Verde, Puerto Rico], to Henry [Volkening] by William Kennedy( )
by Catherine McCarthy( )
Nancy Patz Collection by Nancy Patz( )
by Seymour Shubin( )
Letters of Merrill Moore by Merrill Moore( )
Papers by Eugene Reynal( )
Madison Jones papers by Madison Jones( )
Donald Ogden Stewart and Ella Winter papers by Donald Ogden Stewart( Visual )

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Most widely held works by Harcourt Brace & Company

To market, to market by Anne Miranda( Book )

1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 1,935 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Starting with the nursery rhyme about buying a fat pig at market, this tale goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that run amok, evading capture and preventing the narrator from cooking lunch

Coyote : a trickster tale from the American Southwest by Gerald McDermott( Book )

1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 1,696 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him

Lives of the writers : comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull( Book )

1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 1,660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The lives of twenty writers, ranging from Dickens, the Brontes, and Poe to Twain, Sandburg, and Langston Hughes, are profiled in this humorous and informative collection

Vein of iron by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )

1 edition published in 1935 in English and held by 1,636 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in the historic Great Valley of Virginia, the story centers on the love and marriage of Ada Fincastle, daughter of a Scotch-Irish family whose strength and courage across three generations reflect America's heritage from the earliest days

Lives of the artists : masterpieces, messes (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull( Book )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 1,459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Profiles the lives and discusses the humor and tragedy of artists of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso

The ballad of the pirate queens by Jane Yolen( Book )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 1,320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two women who sailed with Calico Jack Rackham and his pirates in the early 1700s do their best to defend their ship while the men on board are busy drinking

The bride of the Innisfallen, and other stories by Eudora Welty( Book )

1 edition published in 1955 in English and held by 1,249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For contents, see Author Catalog

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes( Book )

2 editions published in 1941 in English and held by 1,222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut

The three billy goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen( Book )

1 edition published in 1957 in English and held by 1,093 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The three billy goats Gruff outsmart the hungry troll who lives under the bridge

The white deer by James Thurber( Book )

1 edition published in 1945 in English and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this mock fairy tale, a princess (who may or may not be a white deer) appears at the court of King Clode and sends his 3 sons on impossible tasks through the enchanted forest in competition for her hand

Jump on over! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit and his family by Van Dyke Parks( Book )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 1,021 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of five tales in which Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and Brer Bear in order to ensure his family's survival during a drought

In this our life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )

1 edition published in 1941 in English and held by 976 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A father gives the best years of his life in the service of others

The house that Drac built by Judy Sierra( Book )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 961 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this Halloween version of a familiar cumulative rhyme, the inhabitants of a haunted house get increasingly agitated until a group of children sets things right

Dodsworth; a novel by Sinclair Lewis( Book )

2 editions published in 1929 in English and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships

The education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N by Leo Rosten( Book )

2 editions published in 1937 in English and held by 914 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Newly emigrated Hyman Kaplan struggles to learn English under the guidance of long-suffering Mr. Parkhill in an adult language class in New York City. Hyman's ingenuity eventually leads him to triumph over grammatical rules, as he and his fellow immigrants reveal their dreams of America are more than a linguistic challenge

Many moons by James Thurber( Book )

1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 886 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon

Ape in a cape : an alphabet of odd animals by Fritz Eichenberg( Book )

1 edition published in 1952 in English and held by 855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An assortment of animals introduce the letters of the alphabet

A haunted house : and other short stories by Virginia Woolf( Book )

1 edition published in 1944 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some are character sketches or studies of relationships between people

Orlando; a biography by Virginia Woolf( Book )

1 edition published in 1928 in English and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores

Bright and early Thursday evening : a tangled tale by Audrey Wood( Book )

2 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 654 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rhyming nonsense tale featuring a series of impossible occurrences, such as a bald-headed baby with hair hanging over its eyes and an egg-laying rooster

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