Mariner Books Classics
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
$18.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan.
The World War II-era study by the cultural anthr
- Author: Benedict, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619593
- Language: English
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Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156232006
- Language: English
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We Can Build You
$13.95 Add to cartA techno-thriller with a biting wit that compares the humanity of man and machine, from the critically acclaimed novelist Philip K. Dick.
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572689
- Language: English
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The Golden Apples
$17.95 Add to cartWelty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I dou… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1956
- ISBN10: 015636090X
- Language: English
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The Company She Keeps
$18.95 Add to cartThis is the author’s first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy’s bo… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0156027860
- Language: English
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Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
$20.00 Read moreThe stories that inspired the original dramatic series.
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1328995062
- Language: English
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Solar Lottery
$13.95 Add to cartThe universe is not nearly as random as it appears in this fun, pulpy early work from the award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572611
- Language: English
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Deus Irae
$13.95 Add to cartAn artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick’s collaboration with Roger Zelazny.
After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel,… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0547572220
- Language: English
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Southern Mail
$12.95 Add to cartIn his first novel, Saint-Exup駻y pays homage to “those elemental divinities–night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an ep
- Series: Harbrace Paperbound Library
- Author: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 15 1972
- ISBN10: 0156839016
- Language: English
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Gather Yourselves Together
$20.99 Add to cartGather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just twenty-four years old. It tells the story of three Americans left behind in China by their employer, bid
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 054757262X
- Language: English
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Our Friends from Frolix 8
$13.99 Add to cartThis satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites.
In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 054757259X
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
$20.99 Add to cartIn these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself mad… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156932504
- Language: English
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Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
$21.95 Add to cart“Nothing short of a wonder-book.”–New York Times Book Review
The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to p
- Series: Harvest American Writing
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0156505150
- Language: English
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Clock Without Hands
$22.95 Add to cartSet in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers’s most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls hims
- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0395929733
- Language: English
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Lectures on Don Quixote
$18.99 Add to cartA fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work … [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0156495406
- Language: English
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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0156701766
- Language: English
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Last Comes the Raven: And Other Stories
$15.99 Add to cartThe first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino’s important early short story collections
Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection–one- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0544146700
- Language: English
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Martian Time-Slip
$19.99 Add to cartCombining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award-winning author Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip follows a group of … [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572573
- Language: English
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Delta Wedding
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new introduction from Anne Tyler.
From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantat- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 358212529
- Language: English
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Galactic Pot-Healer
$13.95 Add to cartThe Glimmung is a mysterious alien, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In this hilarious Philip K. Dick novel, it recruits a disparate gro
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0547572646
- Language: English
