{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2888","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2888","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2888\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWinterson twice, Graham Greene three times, and both Malraux novels — with Byatt, Bowen, Gardam, and Mary McCarthy completing a box of serious literary ambition. Twenty-one novels that deserve to be read slowly.\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\"\u003eSybil — Benjamin Disraeli (Penguin English Library) — Disraeli's great Victorian social novel of \"the two nations\" — the rich and the destitute — told with surprising passion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMarch to Caobaland — B. Traven (Penguin) — Traven's account of a Mexican mahogany expedition, vivid and politically charged.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBoating for Beginners — Jeanette Winterson (Minerva) — Winterson's comic retelling of the Noah story, anarchic and brilliantly irreverent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMorocco — David Flusfeder — a sharp, unsettling novel described as \"an extraordinary and disguising achievement.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Virgin in the Garden — A.S. Byatt (King Penguin) — the first volume of Byatt's Frederica quartet, rich with ideas, desire, and Elizabeth I's England as stage backdrop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHemlock and After — Angus Wilson (Penguin) — Wilson's debut novel of a celebrated novelist facing the moral contradictions of his public idealism and private life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Unicorn — Iris Murdoch — a terrifying Murdoch masterpiece of isolation, obsession, and a woman imprisoned in a remote house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Cruel Sea — Nicholas Monsarrat (Penguin) — the defining British naval novel of the Second World War, relentless and utterly gripping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCrusoe's Daughter — Jane Gardam — a remarkable novel of a woman who reads Robinson Crusoe all her life while the twentieth century crashes around her.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWritten on the Body — Jeanette Winterson (Abacus) — Winterson's most formally daring novel, narrated by a lover whose gender is never disclosed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTo the North — Elizabeth Bowen (Penguin Modern Classics) — Bowen's novel of two women in London, and the doomed, accelerating love affair that destroys them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Jungle — Upton Sinclair (Penguin Modern Classics) — the muckraking novel of Chicago's meatpacking industry that shocked the world and changed food safety law.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTake a Girl Like You — Kingsley Amis — Amis's most underrated novel, a comedy of pursuit set in late-1950s England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Company She Keeps — Mary McCarthy (Penguin) — McCarthy's sharp, semi-autobiographical debut, a portrait of an intellectual woman finding herself in New York.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Essential James Joyce — ed. Harry Levin (Penguin) — a generous introduction to Joyce including Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, selected poems, and extracts from Ulysses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOur Man in Havana — Graham Greene (Penguin) — Greene's comic masterpiece of Cold War espionage, vacuum cleaners, and the lies that take on a life of their own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Confidential Agent — Graham Greene — a gripping political thriller of a desperate man carrying secret documents through a hostile England.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Heart of the Matter — Graham Greene (Penguin) — Greene's most Catholic and most heartbreaking novel, set in wartime West Africa.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDays of Hope — André Malraux (Penguin) — Malraux's novel of the Spanish Civil War, urgent and cinematically vivid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMan's Estate — André Malraux (Penguin) — the Prix Goncourt-winning novel of the Shanghai communist uprising, one of the great political novels of the century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Assassination Bureau, Ltd. — Jack London (Penguin) — the unfinished thriller, completed posthumously, of a hired killer who accepts a contract on his own life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028643684571,"sku":"SP2888","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2888.jpg?v=1785126592","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2888","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}