Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4140

Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4140

Twenty classics and Australian titles in mixed editions: Patrick White’s Voss, Henry Kingsley’s Geoffry Hamlyn, We of the Never-Never, Castaneda’s Don Juan, du Maurier, Colette, Jean Rhys, Monica Dickens, Woolf’s Room of One’s Own, Atlas Shrugged, The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, two volumes of Haliburton’s Clockmaker, and a Bob Hawke biography.

1. My Cousin Rachel — Daphne du Maurier — Philip’s cousin Ambrose dies in Italy after marrying Rachel, and Rachel comes to Cornwall. Did she poison him? Du Maurier never says. Orange Penguin.
2. Voss — Patrick White — A German explorer sets out to cross Australia in 1845 and a Sydney woman he’s met twice follows him in her mind. The Nobel laureate’s masterpiece. Penguin Modern Classics.
3. The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern — Two young magicians are bound into a competition neither understands, in a circus that opens only at night. The 2011 phenomenon, in the Penguin illustrated edition.
4. A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf — Five hundred a year and a lockable door: the argument about women and writing that began the conversation. Pink Penguin Great Ideas.
5. Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence — Paul Morel, his miner father, his suffocating mother and the two women he can’t love because of her. Lawrence’s own family. Penguin.
6. Bird of Wonder — Una Taylor — Real Books Australia edition.
7. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge — Carlos Castaneda — A UCLA anthropology student apprentices himself to a Yaqui sorcerer and takes peyote. The 1968 book that launched a counterculture, in the 30th anniversary edition with a new commentary.
8. Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand — Who is John Galt? The industrialists of America go on strike. The centennial edition, with the Atlas statue on the cover.
9. The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn — Henry Kingsley — The first great Australian novel, 1859: English settlers in the Snowy Mountains, bushrangers and all. Real Books edition.
10. The Black Pharaoh — Christian Jacq — The Nubian king Piankhy conquers Egypt and becomes its pharaoh. From the Ramses author; historical fiction as adventure.
11. The Heart of London — Monica Dickens — A London street, a slum clearance, and the people who won’t go. Dickens’s granddaughter on the postwar city. Orange Penguin.
12. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie — Jean Rhys — Julia is cut off by her lover and drifts between Paris and London with nothing. Rhys’s second novel, bleak and perfect. Penguin.
13. The Vagabond — Colette — A music-hall performer refuses the rich man who wants to marry her, because she’d rather be free. Colette’s own stage years. Penguin.
14. The Clockmaker, Volume Three — Thomas Chandler Haliburton — Sam Slick the Yankee clock-peddler and his sayings and doings, from the 1830s. Nonsuch Classics.
15. Bob Hawke: A Portrait — Robert Pullan — The ACTU president before he was Prime Minister, in a 1980 portrait. Of its moment.
16. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas — Edmond Dantès, framed, imprisoned, escaped, and rich beyond measure, returns to ruin the men who did it. Oxford World’s Classics, the full text.
17. Moby Dick — Herman Melville — Call me Ishmael, then the whale. Blue wave-pattern edition.
18. Just So Stories — Rudyard Kipling — How the Elephant got his trunk, how the Leopard got his spots, and the Cat that walked by himself. The stories meant to be read aloud.
19. The Clockmaker, Volume One — Thomas Chandler Haliburton — The first volume of Sam Slick. Nonsuch Classics.
20. We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess — Mrs Aeneas Gunn — The 1908 memoir of a year on Elsey Station in the Northern Territory, and its companion. Australian Classics condensed edition.