{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2889","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2889","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2889\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Penguin Classics run here is exceptional — Sophocles, Rabelais, Boccaccio, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche alongside Gissing, Waugh, two Laurie Lees, and Muriel Spark. Twenty-four volumes for the reader who keeps a list.\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\"\u003eNew Grub Street — George Gissing (Penguin English Library) — Gissing's savage portrait of the Victorian literary marketplace, as clear-eyed about failure and ambition as any novel written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Song of Roland — trans. Dorothy L. Sayers (Penguin Classics) — the great medieval French epic in Sayers's acclaimed verse translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Breath of French Air — H.E. Bates (Penguin) — the irresistible Larkin family invade France in a second comic adventure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Theban Plays — Sophocles (Penguin Classics, trans. E.F. Watling) — King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone: the three plays on which Western drama rests.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGargantua and Pantagruel — Rabelais (Penguin Classics, trans. J.H. Cohen) — the great comic epic, earthy, encyclopedic, and inexhaustible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Loved One — Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Modern Classics) — Waugh's devastating satire on the California funeral industry and the Americanisation of death.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWashington Square — Henry James (Penguin Classics) — James's lean, precise study of an heiress, a charming suitor, and a father who sees through everything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Decameron — Boccaccio (Penguin Classics) — one hundred tales told by ten young Florentines sheltering from the plague: funny, bawdy, and timeless.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAdolphe — Benjamin Constant (Penguin Classics) — the classic French novel of emotional paralysis, romantic cruelty, and the inability to leave.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSome People — Harold Nicolson (Vintage) — Nicolson's elegant, semi-fictional portraits of the eccentric figures encountered in his diplomatic life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning — Laurie Lee (Penguin) — Lee's lyrical account of walking across pre-Civil War Spain with a violin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Rose for Winter — Laurie Lee (Penguin) — Lee's return to Andalusia fifteen years later, equally beautiful and more elegiac.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe New Machiavelli — H.G. Wells — Wells's political novel of a rising Liberal politician torn between public ambition and private desire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEssays — Montaigne (Penguin Classics) — a generous selection from the great French essayist, as companionable as any writer who ever lived.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFruits of the Earth — André Gide (Penguin Modern Classics) — Gide's lyrical hymn to liberation and the full life of the senses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Ballad of Peckham Rye — Muriel Spark (Penguin) — Spark at her most wicked, with a supernatural stranger loose in south London's offices and bedsits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Dream of a Queer Fellow \u0026amp; The Pushkin Speech — Dostoevsky (Unwin Books) — two essential Dostoevsky texts: a visionary short story and his great speech on the Russian soul.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBeyond Good and Evil — Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) — Nietzsche's assault on conventional morality, demanding and still provocative.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser (Penguin American Library, unexpurgated, intro. Alfred Kazin) — the unexpurgated text of Dreiser's scandalous debut, a landmark of American realism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEdwin Drood and Master Humphrey's Clock — Charles Dickens (Everyman's Library) — Dickens's unfinished mystery novel alongside the earlier shorter sketches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eParents and Children — Ivy Compton-Burnett (Penguin Modern Classics) — Compton-Burnett's razor-sharp domestic comedy of power, cruelty, and the impossibility of family life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHeadlong Hall and Gryll Grange — Thomas Love Peacock (World's Classics) — two sparkling satirical novels of ideas, conversation, and absurdity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eRichard II — William Shakespeare (Signet Classic) — the tragedy of a king who loves words more than power.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eHenry V — William Shakespeare (Signet Classic) — the warrior king and the battle of Agincourt, with the ambiguity that underlies the triumph.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028644176091,"sku":"SP2889","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2889.jpg?v=1785126644","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2889","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}