{"title":"Classics Book Boxes","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"non-fiction-classics-bargain-book-box","title":"Non-fiction Classics Bargain Book Box","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the revolutionary insights of Marx, Nietzsche, and Tesla, the \u003cstrong\u003eNon-fiction Classics Bargain Book Box\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a foundational library for understanding the history of thought, human nature, and the principles that govern the modern world. Dive into the minds of history's greatest thinkers and gain essential knowledge on everything from personal finance and persuasive speaking to revolutionary political theory and the psychology of dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. 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Nietzsche challenges the moral prejudices of his time, advocating for intellectual freedom and the development of new values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Inventions by Nikola Tesla\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTesla’s own account of his life, scientific endeavors, and breakthroughs, including his revolutionary work in alternating current (AC) electricity, wireless transmission, and the future of energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn influential examination of Bushido, the moral code of the Japanese samurai. Nitobe explores the seven virtues of the samurai—including integrity, compassion, and loyalty—and their relevance to modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dialogues of Socrates by Plato\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA selection of Plato's works showcasing the philosophical method and core teachings of his mentor, Socrates, covering essential topics like justice, knowledge, and the meaning of a virtuous life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Analects by Confucius\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive collection of sayings, ideas, and brief conversations attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, forming the bedrock of East Asian philosophy concerning ethics, morality, family relationships, and good governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Liberty by John Stuart Mill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA seminal work in political philosophy arguing for the importance of individual liberty. Mill defends the 'Harm Principle,' asserting that society should only interfere with an individual's freedom to prevent harm to others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDream Psychology by Sigmund Freud\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essential introduction or abridged version of Freud's theories on the interpretation of dreams. 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From the classic Russian tales of Gogol to modern bestsellers like \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"168\"\u003eThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"213\"\u003eThe Invention of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e, this box offers a mix of literary fiction, historical drama, and gripping thrillers. Whether you want to explore the streets of Cairo in \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"374\"\u003eThe City Always Wins\u003c\/i\u003e or the Mexican ghost town of Comala in \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"434\"\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e, these books will transport you. Each book is secondhand and may show signs of wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col start=\"1\" data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,0,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eNikolai Gogol: The Collected Tales\u003c\/i\u003e by Nikolai Gogol This volume brings together the essential short stories of the Russian master of the surreal and the grotesque. Including famous works like \"The Nose\" and \"The Overcoat,\" these tales blend satire with supernatural elements to paint a vivid picture of 19th-century Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,1,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\u003c\/i\u003e by Joël Dicker A young writer heads to a quiet New Hampshire town to cure his writer's block, only to find himself in the middle of a murder investigation. His mentor, a famous author, is accused of killing a teenage girl thirty years earlier. It is a twisting, turning mystery about love, fame, and the lies we tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,2,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Botanist's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e by Kayte Nunn Two women, separated by a century, are connected by a mysterious notebook and a rare flower. In Victorian England, a woman embarks on a dangerous expedition to Chile, while in modern-day Australia, a gardener uncovers a secret that threatens her safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,3,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,3,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Invention of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e by Sue Monk Kidd Set in early 19th-century Charleston, this novel follows the lives of two women: Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy slave owner, and Handful, the enslaved girl given to her as a present. Spanning decades, it charts their complex relationship and their individual struggles for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,4,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eScattered All Over the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by Yoko Tawada In a near future where Japan has disappeared from the map, a woman named Hiruko travels across Europe teaching a made-up language. She searches for anyone who can speak her native tongue, leading to a whimsical and thought-provoking journey about identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,5,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,5,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe City Always Wins\u003c\/i\u003e by Omar Robert Hamilton A visceral and urgent novel set during the Egyptian Revolution. It follows a group of young activists fighting for a new future in Cairo, capturing the chaos, euphoria, and heartbreak of a movement that changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,6,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,6,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Dark Meadow\u003c\/i\u003e by Andrea Maria Schenkel A chilling crime novel inspired by a true story. When a woman and her daughter return to a remote village after the war, they find that old secrets and new dangers await them. It is a dark atmospheric tale of guilt and retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,7,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,7,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThis I Know\u003c\/i\u003e by Eldonna Edwards Grace Carter is a young girl with a special gift—she can \"know\" things about people just by touching them. Growing up in a small town with a preacher father, she struggles to understand her abilities and find her own voice in a community that fears what it doesn't understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,8,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,8,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Principle\u003c\/i\u003e by Jérôme Ferrari A philosophical novel that explores the life of physicist Werner Heisenberg, the man behind the uncertainty principle. It delves into the moral dilemmas faced by scientists during the rise of Nazism and the atomic age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,9,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,9,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e by Juan Rulfo A masterpiece of Latin American literature. Juan Preciado travels to the ghost town of Comala to find his father, Pedro Páramo, only to discover a place inhabited by the spirits of the dead. It is a haunting, dreamlike narrative that influenced magical realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,10,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,10,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Eyes Are the Best Part\u003c\/i\u003e by Monika Kim A dark and twisted horror-comedy about a young woman obsessed with eyes. As her life unravels, her fixation grows, leading to a gruesome and satirical exploration of beauty standards and female rage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,11,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,11,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e by Yukio Mishima A group of disaffected teenage boys rejects the adult world, which they see as hypocritical and soft. When one of the boys' widowed mother falls in love with a sailor, the group decides to punish him for abandoning his life at sea for domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,12,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,12,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Book of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e by Christy Lefteri From the author of \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,12,0\" data-index-in-node=\"55\"\u003eThe Beekeeper of Aleppo\u003c\/i\u003e, this novel follows a family devastated by a wildfire in Greece. It is a moving story about trauma, survival, and the enduring power of nature and human connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2,13,0\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"2,13,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe Empire\u003c\/i\u003e by Michael Ball Set in the glamorous world of the theatre in the 1920s. 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Trapped in their childhood home, they confront old grievances, failed marriages, and their own immaturity in this hilarious and touching family drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48222860476635,"sku":"SP2417","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/SP2417_jpg.jpg?v=1770253404"},{"product_id":"advent-classics-2026","title":"Advent - Classics Book Box 2026","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ultimate Book Advent Calendar for lovers of Classics - available exclusively at Book Grocer \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e- bookgrocer.com!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Advent Classics Book Box is perfect those who love to read Classics books. Inside, they'll discover 24 Classics - providing a fantastic mix of reading. (Please note: books are not Christmas-themed.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere will be no duplicate titles from previous years' Book Advent Calendars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a Mystery Book Box with a special festive twist: 24 individually wrapped books, each numbered and designed to be opened one per day from 1 December through to Christmas Eve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Advent Calendars are available in strictly limited numbers.\u003c\/strong\u003e We will begin shipping Advent Calendars in the coming weeks, with dispatches taking place between now and mid-November. Each box will be clearly labelled: \"Do Not Open Before December 1st\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease note that gift wrapping is not required for this item (or any of our Advent Book Boxes), as every book inside is already individually wrapped and ready to enjoy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/pages\/advent\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrowse our other Book Advent Calendars here.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer Box","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286254399707,"sku":"HIB575","price":190.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/Classics.png?v=1773620760"},{"product_id":"secondhand-classics-bargain-book-box-sp2846","title":"Secondhand Classics Bargain Book Box SP2846","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Classics Bargain Book Box SP2846\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwenty-one paperback classics spanning two centuries of world literature — Dickens, Joyce, Shakespeare, Faulkner, García Márquez, Camus, all in quality editions. A box for the serious reader building a real library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOur Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Classics) — Dickens's last completed novel, a labyrinthine story of inheritance, identity, and the Thames that many consider his darkest and most modern work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Classics) — The comic novel that made Dickens famous at twenty-four, following the bumbling Mr Pickwick and his club on a series of cheerfully disastrous English adventures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop — Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Classics) — The novel that famously had crowds meeting ships in New York harbour to learn the fate of Little Nell — a melodrama of innocence against greed that still packs an emotional punch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger — Holden Caulfield's seventy-two-hour breakdown remains one of the most perfectly pitched first-person voices in American fiction — angry, funny, and quietly heartbroken.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Songlines — Bruce Chatwin (Vintage) — Chatwin's restless masterpiece following the invisible pathways of Aboriginal Australia, weaving travelogue, meditation, and fiction into something entirely its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eInvisible Cities — Italo Calvino (Vintage) — Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan fifty-five impossible cities, each one a meditation on memory, desire, and the act of imagination itself — Calvino at his most crystalline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Glass Palace — Amitav Ghosh — An epic of Burma, India, and Malaya spanning a century of colonial history, following one family from the fall of the Burmese monarchy to the upheavals of the Second World War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Time Machine — H.G. Wells (Penguin Classics) — The novella that launched Wells's career and the genre of time travel — deceptively slim, genuinely disturbing in its vision of where evolutionary divergence leads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Warden — Anthony Trollope (Penguin Classics) — The first of the Barsetshire Chronicles, introducing Mr Harding and the petty moral warfare of a cathedral close — Trollope at his most quietly devastating.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eComplete Short Fiction — Oscar Wilde (Penguin Classics) — Wilde's stories and fairy tales gathered in one volume, showing the same glittering intelligence that lit his plays turned to darker and more tender purposes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas (Vintage, trans. Will Hobson) — Dumas's great adventure novel in a fresh modern translation, putting the speed and energy of the original back on every page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare (Penguin Classics) — Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy, in which the forest of Athens makes fools of mortals and fairies alike — endlessly staged, endlessly surprising on the page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAbsalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner (Vintage) — Faulkner's most ambitious novel, reconstructing the doomed Sutpen dynasty through overlapping narrators and time — demanding, hallucinatory, and unforgettable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Outsider — Albert Camus (Penguin) — Meursault kills a man on an Algerian beach and feels nothing — or so it appears. Camus's existentialist landmark remains one of the most unsettling and argued-over novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eUlysses — James Joyce (Oxford World's Classics) — A single day in Dublin — 16 June 1904 — rendered in the most technically daring prose in the English language. The novel that changed everything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFrankenstein — Mary Shelley (World's Classics) — The novel that a nineteen-year-old wrote on a dare and that launched both science fiction and horror as we know them — still stranger and more philosophically serious than any adaptation suggests.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez (Penguin) — Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza wait fifty-one years, nine months, and four days to be together — García Márquez's great novel of patience, obsession, and late love.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSuch is Life — Tom Collins (Australian Classics, Penguin) — Joseph Furphy's towering Australian novel, narrated by the irrepressible Tom Collins, remains the great comic-philosophical work of colonial bush life — essential reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDubliners — James Joyce (Penguin Modern Classics) — Fifteen stories of paralysis, epiphany, and longing in early twentieth-century Dublin, closing with The Dead — one of the greatest short stories ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas (Scholastic Classics) — The ultimate revenge novel — Edmond Dantès, wrongly imprisoned, escapes, grows fabulously wealthy, and returns to dismantle the lives of those who betrayed him, one by one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Pearl — John Steinbeck (Penguin) — A fisherman finds the pearl of the world and it destroys everything he loves — Steinbeck's parable of greed and loss, spare and devastating in equal measure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48971511759067,"sku":"SP2846","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2846.jpg?v=1783947337"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/collections\/classics-book-boxes\/christmas.oembed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}