{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4077","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4077","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4077\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAn eclectic, beautifully stocked box of twentieth-century literary fiction and classic prose. Orwell, Vonnegut, Camus, Hemingway, Burroughs, Hardy, Isherwood, Huxley, Kerouac and more — each one a distinct voice, together making something close to a curriculum in modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Clergyman's Daughter — George Orwell — Dorothy Hare, a vicar's daughter, loses her memory and finds herself living rough in London. Lesser-known Orwell, full of sharp social observation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great Modern Poets — ed. Michael Schmidt — An anthology of essential English-language poetry since 1900, from the Imagists to the present. A superb introduction to the modern canon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Heart of a Dog — Mikhail Bulgakov — A Moscow street dog is given the brain of a human criminal in a darkly funny satirical novella. Bulgakov at his most subversive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntic Hay — Aldous Huxley — A biting satire of London bohemian life in the 1920s, full of clever, dissatisfied people doing each other harm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoby Dick — Herman Melville — Ishmael ships out with the obsessed Captain Ahab in pursuit of the great white whale. One of the supreme novels in the English language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Gift of Love — Martin Luther King Jr. — Sermons and reflections from King, revealing the depth and humanity behind the famous speeches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings — Charles Dickens — Scrooge, the three Ghosts and the definitive Christmas redemption story. The complete Dickens text.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer — William S. Burroughs — Semi-autobiographical and raw, Burroughs's account of a writer's obsession in 1950s Mexico City. One of his most personal works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis Last Bow: Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle — The final collection of Holmes stories, including the famous wartime tale in which the great detective comes out of retirement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Single Man — Christopher Isherwood — A day in the life of George, a gay British professor in 1960s Los Angeles, grieving the loss of his partner. Quietly devastating.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Have and Have Not — Ernest Hemingway — Harry Morgan runs contraband between Cuba and Florida to survive. Hemingway's most politically engaged novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnder the Greenwood Tree — Thomas Hardy — Hardy's warmest and most pastoral novel, a gentle love story set among the musicians of a Wessex village.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather and Son — Edmund Gosse — A memoir of growing up with a deeply religious Plymouth Brethren father. One of the finest English autobiographies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald — Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and the green light at the end of the dock. The American Dream and its unravelling, told in Fitzgerald's incomparable prose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother Night — Kurt Vonnegut — An American spy poses as a Nazi propagandist during WWII — and comes to wonder which part of himself was real.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus — Camus's landmark essay on the absurd: why do we go on in a world without inherent meaning? Philosophy at its most readable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Patagonia — Bruce Chatwin — Chatwin walks through the extreme south of South America in this classic of travel writing, mixing adventure with history and myth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrave New World Revisited — Aldous Huxley — Huxley returns to the themes of his great novel twenty years later, measuring how close reality has come to dystopia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Road — Jack Kerouac — Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty tear across America in the book that defined a generation and launched the Beat movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli — The ruthlessly pragmatic Renaissance guide to political power. Still provocative, still essential.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe — Yevgeny Zamyatin — The dystopian novel that preceded and influenced both Brave New World and 1984. A citizen of the One State begins to feel something dangerous: individuality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49337187959003,"sku":"SP4077","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4077.jpg?v=1789967667","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp4077","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}