Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books

by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012

"Essential...A novel that resounds with relevance for our own time." —New York Times Book Review First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize–winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family—poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago’s...
by Richard Wilbur
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1987

Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
by Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
by Péter Gárdos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

“Fever at Dawn has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars . . . A book to fall in love with.” — Herald Sun It’s 1945 and Miklós is looking for a wife. The fact that he has six months left to live doesn’t discourage him — he isn’t one to let...
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1974

In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
by Monique Truong
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements...
by Italo Calvino
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012

Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1984

A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "[This translation] is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov.
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

A comedic play about the universal quest for meaning, written in some of Eliot’s “most beautiful poetry” (The New York Times). A sterling example of contemporary theater, The Cocktail Party is a dramatic tour de force from one of our greatest writers to date.
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot’s early work.
by Richard Wilbur, Pierre Corneille
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007

Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an "extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the...
by Karin Fossum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

**“Tantalizing.” — Washington Post “One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom.” — New York Magazine “No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” — Los Angeles Times “A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind.” — Jo...
by Ann Patchett
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004

Sabine—twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband—is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his...
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