{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2874","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2874","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid grid-rows-[auto_auto] min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row-start-2 col-start-1 relative grid grid-rows-[auto_auto] isolate min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row-start-1 col-start-1 relative z-[2] min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"standard-markdown grid-cols-1 grid [\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 [\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*:last-child]:mb-0 print:block print:[\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*_+_*]:mt-3 standard-markdown\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2874\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-four literary classics and fiction titles spanning antiquity to the twentieth century — Virgil and Chaucer alongside Dickens, Conrad, Waugh, and Salinger, with Gerald Durrell's comic memoirs and John Betjeman's poetry for good measure. A rich and eclectic reading box.\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\"\u003eThe Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues) — Virgil, trans. E.V. Rieu (Penguin Classics) — Rieu's lucid translation of Virgil's ten eclogues — the poems that established the pastoral mode in Western literature and encode a world on the cusp of change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTroilus and Criseyde — Chaucer (Penguin Classics) — Chaucer's supreme romance, written with a psychological subtlety that anticipates the novel by two centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. J.M. Cohen (Penguin Classics) — The first great autobiography in the modern sense, in which Rousseau tells everything — including things he probably shouldn't have.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOliver Twist — Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics) — The novel that gave English fiction the workhouse, the pickpocket, and the fog-haunted streets of Victorian London.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWhat Maisie Knew — Henry James (Penguin Classics) — A young girl shuttled between warring divorced parents, seeing everything and understanding more than the adults know — James at his most formally precise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLélia: The Life of George Sand — André Maurois — Maurois's sympathetic biography of the great French novelist and feminist whose life was as extraordinary as anything she wrote.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLady with Lapdog and Other Stories — Chekhov (Penguin Classics) — The title story alone is one of the greatest short stories ever written; the rest sustain the standard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eChance — Joseph Conrad (Penguin Classics) — Conrad's most deliberately intricate novel, narrated through multiple frames of unreliable testimony.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFair Stood the Wind for France — H.E. Bates (Penguin) — A wounded British airman hiding in occupied France falls in love — Bates's most celebrated novel, a war story and a love story of exceptional delicacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Republic — Plato (Penguin Classics) — Socrates and his companions construct the ideal city in speech, asking what justice, knowledge, and the good life might mean — the founding text of Western political philosophy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBrideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh — Charles Ryder recalls the Flyte family, their crumbling Catholic house, and the various ways grace operates on people who resist it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAesop's Fables — Aesop (Collins Classics) — The fox and the grapes, the tortoise and the hare — the fables that have structured Western moral imagination for two and a half thousand years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOrlando Furioso 1 — Ariosto (Penguin Classics) — The first volume of Ariosto's great Renaissance epic — knights, sorceresses, and marvels — one of the great pleasures of European literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMr Norris Changes Trains — Christopher Isherwood (Penguin Modern Classics) — Berlin in the early 1930s, through the eyes of a naive narrator and his sinister, charming new friend — Isherwood's most perfectly controlled novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDarkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler (Penguin Modern Classics) — Rubashov awaits trial in a Soviet prison — Koestler's masterpiece of political fiction, written from the inside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAn Outcast of the Islands — Joseph Conrad (Penguin Modern Classics) — Conrad's second novel, set in the Malay Archipelago: a man's weakness destroys his only chance of escape from himself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (Penguin) — Holden Caulfield's seventy-two hours of breakdown remain one of the most perfectly pitched first-person voices in American fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Zoo in My Luggage — Gerald Durrell (Penguin) — Durrell goes to the Cameroons to collect animals for his zoo, narrated with the comic precision and affection that made him beloved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Drunken Forest — Gerald Durrell (Penguin) — Durrell in Argentina and Paraguay, collecting animals in the chaos of the Chaco — as funny and warm as everything he wrote.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne — Hawthorne's Gothic novel of a New England family haunted by an ancestor's crime — oppressive, strange, and beautifully written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid grid-rows-[auto_auto] min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row-start-2 col-start-1 relative grid grid-rows-[auto_auto] isolate min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row-start-1 col-start-1 relative z-[2] min-w-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"standard-markdown grid-cols-1 grid [\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 [\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*:last-child]:mb-0 print:block print:[\u0026amp;_\u0026gt;_*_+_*]:mt-3 standard-markdown\"\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\" start=\"21\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Man and Two Women — Doris Lessing — short stories exploring love and domestic life with Lessing's characteristic psychological acuity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCollected Poems — John Betjeman — the essential collection from Britain's much-loved poet laureate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFather and Son — Edmund Gosse (Penguin Modern Classics) — a candid memoir of religious conflict between a naturalist father and his son in Victorian England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBarchester Towers — Anthony Trollope (Everyman) — the beloved ecclesiastical comedy, one of the great pleasures of Victorian fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028033741019,"sku":"SP2874","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2874.jpg?v=1785107156","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2874","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}