{"product_id":"secondhand-classic-literature-bargain-book-box-sp2906","title":"Secondhand Classic Literature Bargain Book Box SP2906","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Classic Literature Bargain Book Box SP2906\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-four vintage Penguin and Faber paperbacks spanning two millennia — Chaucer to Colette, Seneca to John Wyndham, Victor Serge to Muriel Spark. Each book is a small artefact of mid-twentieth-century publishing at its most elegant, and every one of them is worth reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" 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 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDavid Copperfield — Charles Dickens (Penguin English Library) — Dickens's most autobiographical novel, and by many accounts his greatest, in the classic Penguin English Library edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBrave New World — Aldous Huxley (Penguin Modern Classics) — the twentieth century's most prescient dystopia, which predicted comfort rather than cruelty as the instrument of control.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRecollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets — Thomas De Quincey (Penguin) — De Quincey's accounts of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey: equal parts memoir, criticism, and gossip.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTen Novels and Their Authors — W. Somerset Maugham (Penguin) — Maugham's celebrated essays on the ten novels he considered the greatest in the world, a masterpiece of readable criticism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Chrysalids — John Wyndham (Penguin) — post-apocalyptic science fiction of rare moral seriousness and emotional power. One of Wyndham's finest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Canterbury Tales — Chaucer (Penguin Classics, translated by Nevill Coghill) — the definitive modern-English translation, which remains one of the most entertaining books ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Day of the Triffids — John Wyndham (Penguin) — a man wakes from an operation to find most of the world blind, and the triffids have been waiting for exactly this moment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Bachelors — Muriel Spark (Penguin) — a sharp, wickedly funny Spark novel of London bachelors, a fake medium, and the permanent condition of being outside proper society.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Case of Comrade Tulayev — Victor Serge (Penguin Modern Classics) — a Soviet functionary is shot, and the investigation destroys everyone connected to him. One of the great political novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Distracted Preacher and Other Tales — Thomas Hardy (Penguin English Library) — Hardy's short fiction, including smuggling, rural life, and the comedy of social misunderstanding.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOn Liberty \/ Representative Government \/ The Subjection of Women — John Stuart Mill (Penguin) — three foundational texts of liberal political philosophy in one volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMadame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert (Penguin Classics) — the novel that invented modern fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Outward Urge — John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes (Penguin) — Wyndham's science fiction of humanity's compulsion toward space, across generations of one family.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFour Tragedies and Octavia — Seneca (Penguin Classics) — the Roman philosopher's plays, which gave Elizabethan dramatists their template for revenge tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBirth of Our Power — Victor Serge (Penguin) — Serge's revolutionary novel of Barcelona and the impossible choices of a Spanish uprising. A masterpiece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Romantic Manifesto — Ayn Rand — Rand's philosophical essays on aesthetics and the nature of art, characteristically combative and impossible to ignore.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Penguin Book of Scottish Verse — introduced and edited by Tom Scott — a comprehensive anthology of Scottish poetry from the earliest times to the modern day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston — Robert Louis Stevenson (The World's Classics) — the most famous tale of duality in English fiction, paired with Stevenson's unfinished final novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMen in Prison — Victor Serge (Penguin) — Serge's shattering fictional memoir of imprisonment, drawn from his own experience in tsarist Russia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Blacks — Jean Genet (Faber) — Genet's explosive anti-colonial play, still one of the most confronting theatrical works of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTwentieth Century German Verse — edited by Patrick Bridgwater (Penguin Poets) — a bilingual anthology of German poetry from Rilke to the 1960s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWord Six and Other Stories — Anton Chekhov (Signet Classic) — Chekhov's short fiction including his most harrowing tale of institutional cruelty.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Life of a Useless Man — Maxim Gorky (translated by Moura Budberg, Penguin) — Gorky's portrait of a police spy in pre-revolutionary Russia, comic and damning in equal measure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Pure and the Impure — Colette (Penguin) — Colette's frank and beautiful meditation on love, desire, and the people who exist outside society's definitions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056536625371,"sku":"SP2906","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2906.jpg?v=1785665152","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-classic-literature-bargain-book-box-sp2906","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}