Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2885

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2885

Two Muriel Spark novels, Camus, Fitzgerald, Ibsen, and Euripides alongside Marlowe's complete plays and Tillyard on Shakespeare — this is literary fiction in the broadest and best sense, with a richness of drama few boxes can match.

1. The Plague — Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — Camus's great novel of a city sealed against an epidemic, and what people do when faced with absurdity and death.
2. Washington Square — Henry James (Penguin Modern Classics) — James's precise, unsparing study of an heiress, a charming suitor, and a father who sees everything.
3. Portable Australian Authors: Henry Lawson — ed. Brian Kiernan — a substantial anthology of Lawson's stories and verse, the essential Australian bush writer.
4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — R.L. Stevenson (Wordsworth Classics) — Stevenson's novella of duality and the dark side of Victorian respectability.
5. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (World's Classics) — a selection from Leonardo's remarkable private writings on art, science, and observation.
6. Cymbeline — William Shakespeare — the late romance of Britain, Rome, and a lost princess, in the World's Classics edition.
7. Complete Plays — Christopher Marlowe — the full dramatic works of Shakespeare's greatest contemporary: Tamburlaine, Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and more.
8. Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Anthology of Modern Criticism — ed. Laurence Lerner (Penguin Shakespeare Library) — key critical essays on the major tragedies from leading twentieth-century scholars.
9. Hedda Gabler / The Pillars of the Community / The Wild Duck — Henrik Ibsen (Penguin Classics) — three of Ibsen's most devastating social dramas in a single volume.
10. Alcestis / Hippolytus / Iphigenia in Tauris — Euripides (Penguin Classics) — three plays of sacrifice, desire, and divine interference in Philip Vellacott's translation.
11. Versus — Ogden Nash (Aldine Paperback) — a fine collection from America's most beloved comic poet.
12. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — B. Traven (Penguin) — three men, a mountain, and gold — Traven's bleak and brilliant study of greed.
13. Love Among the Haystacks — D.H. Lawrence (Penguin) — early Lawrence short stories, vivid with the rural Midlands and the stirring of desire.
14. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (Penguin Modern Classics) — the green light, the parties, and the dream that cannot hold. Essential.
15. Shakespeare's History Plays — E.M.W. Tillyard (Penguin Shakespeare Library) — the landmark critical study of the history plays as a connected moral and political sequence.
16. The Trojan Women — Euripides, adapted by Neil Curry — Euripides's great anti-war play in a modern adaptation, as piercing now as ever.
17. The Girls of Slender Means — Muriel Spark (Penguin) — a group of young women in a London hostel in 1945, and the catastrophe that changes everything.
18. The Bachelors — Muriel Spark (Penguin) — Spark's wicked, witty study of London bachelors and a spiritualist fraud that turns deadly.
19. The Story of an African Farm — Olive Schreiner (Penguin Modern Classics) — a groundbreaking novel of gender, religion, and colonial South Africa, still shocking in its modernity.
20. Selected Poems — Robert Frost, ed. with an introduction by Ian Hamilton (Penguin) — the essential Frost, from birches to stone walls to the road not taken.
21. The Power-House — John Buchan (Classic Thrillers) — an early Buchan thriller in which a quiet London lawyer discovers the existence of a secret society bent on civilisation's destruction.