{"product_id":"secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2887","title":"Secondhand History \u0026 Culture Bargain Book Box SP2887","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Culture Bargain Book Box SP2887\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEight Past Masters from Oxford anchor the bottom of the box, with four Fontana History of Europe volumes, Pepys's Diary, and Galbraith, Peter Fleming, and Erich Heller on Kafka filling the rows above. A serious box for the serious general reader.\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\"\u003eRome and the Mediterranean — Livy (Penguin Classics) — the third and fourth decades of Livy's history, covering Rome's wars with Macedon and Syria.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eInvitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective — Peter L. Berger (Pelican) — a celebrated and accessible introduction to sociological thinking, still widely read and taught.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFrom Humanism to Science 1480–1700 — Robert Mandrou — a cultural history of the transition from Renaissance humanism to the scientific revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Non-potable Scotch — J.K. Galbraith (Penguin) — Galbraith's witty and affectionate memoir of the Scots who settled in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePortrait of India — Ved Mehta (Pelican) — Mehta's wide-ranging portrait of India in the years after independence, rich with people and places.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRevolutionary Europe 1783–1815 — George Rudé (Fontana History of Europe) — from the French Revolution to the fall of Napoleon, in the landmark Fontana series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEurope between Revolutions 1815–1848 — Jacques Droz (Fontana History of Europe) — the Restoration era and the forces gathering beneath its surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Symphony: Haydn to Dvorak — ed. Robert Simpson — a critical survey of the symphony from its classical origins through the Romantic period.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eShakespeare: The Poet and His Background — Peter Quennell (Penguin Shakespeare Library) — a biographical and cultural account of Shakespeare's life and the world that formed him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eShakespeare and the Idea of the Play — Anne Righter (Penguin Shakespeare Library) — a scholarly study of how the play-within-a-play and the concept of theatre function in Shakespeare's work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Road to Xanadu — John Livingston Lowes (Vintage) — the legendary scholarly investigation into the literary sources of Coleridge's Kubla Khan and The Ancient Mariner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eKafka — Erich Heller (Fontana Modern Masters, ed. Frank Kermode) — a concise and penetrating critical study of Kafka's work and its philosophical dimensions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSamuel Pepys: Diary — a hardback edition of the celebrated seventeenth-century diary, the most intimate record of Restoration London in existence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Siege at Peking — Peter Fleming — Fleming's vivid account of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and the fifty-five day siege of the foreign legations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTocqueville in America — George Wilson Pierson, abridged by Dudley C. Lunt — the classic record of Tocqueville's journey through America, the thinking that became Democracy in America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLife in Russia — Michael Binyon (Doubleday Anchor) — an insider account of Soviet daily life by the Times correspondent in Moscow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eColeridge — Richard Holmes (Past Masters, OUP) — Holmes's concise and characteristically vivid introduction to Coleridge's life and ideas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCobbett — Raymond Williams (Past Masters, OUP) — Williams on the radical journalist and agrarian campaigner who defined rural England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eProust — Derwent May (Past Masters, OUP) — a short, lucid introduction to Proust's life, his novel, and his ideas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCarlyle — A.L. Le Quesne (Past Masters, OUP) — an account of the Victorian sage who shaped so much of the century's intellectual and political life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThomas More — Anthony Kenny (Past Masters, OUP) — Kenny's introduction to More as philosopher, humanist, and martyr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBayle — Elisabeth Labrousse (Past Masters, OUP) — a study of Pierre Bayle, the great seventeenth-century sceptic and pioneer of toleration.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDiderot — Peter France (Past Masters, OUP) — an introduction to Diderot's extraordinary range as philosopher, novelist, and encyclopedist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRhetoric — Peter Dixon (Critical Idiom) — a concise guide to the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028653187291,"sku":"SP2887","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2887.jpg?v=1785126845","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-culture-bargain-book-box-sp2887","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}