{"product_id":"secondhand-classics-bargain-book-box-sp2615","title":"Secondhand Classics Bargain Book Box SP2615","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 canonical classics from both sides of the Atlantic — Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Hardy, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Orwell, and more, all in quality paperback editions. A single box that could fill half a reading list.\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\"\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (Vintage) — Wilde's only novel, in which a beautiful young man sells his soul for eternal youth while his portrait does the ageing for him — still as witty, decadent, and morally charged as the day he wrote it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAs I Lay Dying — William Faulkner (Vintage) — Fifteen narrators carry a coffin across Mississippi in the summer heat — Faulkner's most formally daring novel, and arguably his most darkly comic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald (Vintage) — Fitzgerald's most personal novel, following the glamorous Divers on the French Riviera as money, ambition, and mental illness slowly unravel everything they've built.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTreasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson — Long John Silver, the Hispaniola, and the hunt for buried gold — the adventure novel against which all others are measured, as propulsive now as it was in 1883.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eVillette — Charlotte Brontë (Penguin Classics) — The most psychologically intense of Brontë's novels, following Lucy Snowe into exile in a Belgian school, where suppressed feeling and unreliable narration keep the reader permanently off-balance.\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 spare parable of greed and loss, devastating in its simplicity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGreat Expectations — Charles Dickens — Pip, Miss Havisham, Estella, and Magwitch — Dickens's most tightly constructed novel, and the one where his comic genius and his instinct for darkness are most perfectly balanced.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy (Penguin) — Hardy's great novel of a woman destroyed by the double standards of Victorian society — harrowing, beautiful, and still furious on her behalf.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eInvisible Cities — Italo Calvino (Vintage) — Marco Polo describes fifty-five impossible cities to Kublai Khan, each one a meditation on memory, desire, and the limits of imagination — Calvino at his most crystalline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLittle Women — Louisa May Alcott (Scholastic Classics) — The March sisters grow up in Civil War America — funny, unsentimental, and still surprisingly radical in what it says about women's ambition and creative life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLolita — Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin) — Humbert Humbert tells his story in the most beautiful, damning prose in American fiction — a novel about the violence of self-deception, whatever its narrator insists it's about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (Penguin Classics) — Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy remain the most perfectly matched couple in the history of the novel — Austen's plot mechanics are so elegant they still look effortless.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's — Truman Capote (Modern Classics) — Holly Golightly drifts through New York on charm, nerve, and sheer refusal to be pinned down — Capote's novella is slim, stylish, and much sadder than the film.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHard Times — Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics) — Dickens's shortest and angriest novel, set in the industrial north and aimed squarely at the utilitarian ideology that reduced human beings to economic units.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Color Purple — Alice Walker — Celie's letters to God and to her sister — Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of survival, love, and self-reclamation in the American South, told in a voice unlike any other in American fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLady Oracle — Margaret Atwood (Virago Modern Classics) — Joan Foster fakes her own death and reflects on the elaborate deceptions of her past — Atwood's most gleefully comic novel, and a sharp dissection of female identity and romantic fantasy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (Scholastic Classics) — Heathcliff and Catherine tear each other and everyone around them apart across two generations of the Yorkshire moors — the most savage and romantically extreme novel in English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEmma — Jane Austen (Penguin English Library) — Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, is also completely wrong about everyone she knows — Austen's most intricately plotted comedy, 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