{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2789","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2789","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2789\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty vintage paperbacks with an Australian spine: Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip, Patrick White’s Burnt Ones, Keneally’s Three Cheers for the Paraclete, Hal Porter, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Gillian Mears, Tony Maniaty; plus two Graham Greenes, two Roald Dahls, Hemingway, Colette, du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now, Joyce’s Dubliners, Henry James, Mary Stewart and T.H. White. Penguin orange to Virago green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMen Without Women — Ernest Hemingway — The Killers, Hills Like White Elephants, Fifty Grand, In Another Country. The 1927 stories, and the best collection he published. Orange Penguin, 4\/6.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Captive — Colette — An older woman and a younger man in a Riviera villa, and the odd honesty of the arrangement. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Burnt Ones — Patrick White — Eleven stories, Greek and Australian, including Down at the Dump and Clay. White’s first collection. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Honorary Consul — Graham Greene — A kidnapping gone wrong in Argentina: the guerrillas take the wrong man, a drunk British consul, and a doctor has to decide whether to save him. Greene’s own favourite of his novels. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonkey Grip — Helen Garner — Nora, her daughter, a share house in Fitzroy, and Javo, the junkie she can’t give up. The 1977 novel that changed Australian fiction, and the Noni Hazlehurst film cover. Elegant and wry, says the New Yorker.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomeone Like You — Roald Dahl — Lamb to the Slaughter, Man from the South, Taste, Skin. Stories for those with broad minds and nerves of steel, says the cover, and it’s right. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon’t Look Now — Daphne du Maurier — A couple in Venice after their daughter’s death, two sisters, and a small figure in a red coat. The title story alone is worth the book; the Nicolas Roeg film came from it. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle — Murder, mystery, walkies: the Pulp! The Classics edition with the joke cover and the real text.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Maharajah and Other Stories — T.H. White — Uncollected stories from the Once and Future King author, including the title tale of an Indian prince in England. Futura.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Quiet American — Graham Greene — Saigon, 1952: Fowler, the cynical correspondent, and Pyle, the American who means well and gets people killed. The novel that predicted Vietnam. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hollow Hills — Mary Stewart — Merlin raises the boy Arthur in secret and finds the sword in the stone. The second Merlin book. Coronet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDubliners — James Joyce — Araby, Eveline, The Dead. Fifteen stories of Dublin life, Joyce’s first book, and the one to read before Ulysses. Orange Penguin, 4\/-.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Cheers for the Paraclete — Thomas Keneally — A young priest at a Sydney seminary falls foul of the hierarchy. Won the Miles Franklin 1968; Keneally’s own seminary years. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tilted Cross — Hal Porter — Hobart in the 1840s, a convict artist and a doomed love. Porter’s best novel; Seal Australian Fiction edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollected Stories — Gillian Mears — Ride a Cock Horse, Fineflour and the uncollected stories, by the New South Wales writer who died at fifty-one. The moths cover. UQP.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Children Must Dance — Tony Maniaty — Chile in the 1970s and an Australian journalist caught in the coup. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTales of the Unexpected — Roald Dahl — Lamb to the Slaughter, The Landlady, Royal Jelly, and the rest of the stories the Anglia TV series used. Penguin TV tie-in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bostonians — Henry James — Olive Chancellor and Basil Ransom fight over Verena Tarrant and the women’s movement in 1870s Boston. James’s most political novel. Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinged Seeds — Katharine Susannah Prichard — The third of the goldfields trilogy: Kalgoorlie in the Depression and the war. Virago Modern Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51071849070811,"sku":"SP2789","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2789.jpg?v=1794200308","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2789","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}