{"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\/products\/secondhand-classics-bargain-book-box-sp2846","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}