Mariner Books Classics
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
$32.00 Add to cartA deluxe collector’s edition of John Irving’s beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany–a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher i
- Author: Irving, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0062299565
- Language: English
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana? Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
$19.99 Add to cartA “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writ… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 1989
- ISBN10: 015652791X
- Language: English
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories
$18.99 Add to cartA classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Caf?.” “Glowingly impressive, in… [more below]
- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0618565868
- Language: English
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
$15.99 Add to cartItalo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.
At the time of… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544146670
- Language: English
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Winter’s Tale
$19.99 Add to cartA #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin’s masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle ﾉpoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows, and to a love story that is one of t
- Author: Helprin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031191
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Man
$19.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall’s account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior eve… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0547334168
- Language: English
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A Collection of Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the “conscience of his generation” and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentie
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 21, 1970
- ISBN10: 0156186004
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
$18.99 Add to cart
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he love
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 06, 1977
- ISBN10: 0156717204
- Language: English
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All the King’s Men
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The fully restored original text of the classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power–American literature’s definit… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 3, 2002
- ISBN10: 0156012952
- Language: English
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Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
$18.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today’s brightest economist.
In this classic discussion, Milton and R- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26, 1990
- ISBN10: 0156334607
- Language: English
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThe essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chapli… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033070
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
$18.99 Add to cartBefore he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England’s working class — an investigation that led him to examine democratic soci… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 1972
- ISBN10: 0156767503
- Language: English
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In the Lake of the Woods
$18.99 Add to cartThis riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When
- Author: O’Brien, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 061870986X
- Language: English
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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146999
- Language: English
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A Writer’s Diary: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$21.99 Add to cartAn invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years.
Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those tha… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 31, 2003
- ISBN10: 0156027917
- Language: English
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The Baron in the Trees
$18.99 Add to cartA landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
Cosimo di Rond?, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century,- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0544959116
- Language: English
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1984 Deluxe Edition
$30.00 Read moreThis beautiful edition of George Orwell’s powerful work of dystopian fiction features a leatherette cover, gilt edging, and ribbon marker–a perfect gift for our times.
In 1984, London is a grim city- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0358375401
- Language: English
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A Passage to India
$13.99 Add to cartA classic of modern fiction about colliding cultures–teeming with complexity, mystery, and menace.
Hailed as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century and transformed into an Academy Award-win
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 17, 1965
- ISBN10: 0156711427
- Language: English
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Moments of Being: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$18.99 Add to cartMoments of Being is “the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life” (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23, 1985
- ISBN10: 0156619180
- Language: English
