Secondhand Penguin Classics Bargain Book Box SP2959

Secondhand Penguin Classics Bargain Book Box SP2959

Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Signet classics: Greek drama four times, Zola’s Nana, A Clockwork Orange in the Penguin cog-eye cover, Christina Stead, Chaim Potok, two Graham Greenes, Peyton Place in the Pan Giant edition and Wilde’s plays. A box with range, from Euripides to the explosive bestseller that made the famous film.

1. The Bacchae and Other Plays — Euripides — Dionysus comes to Thebes and a mother tears her son apart. Penguin Classics, Vellacott translation.
2. A Friend of Kafka — Isaac Bashevis Singer — Twenty-one stories from the Nobel laureate, Warsaw to New York. Penguin.
3. Nana — Émile Zola — A courtesan eats the Second Empire alive. Penguin Classics.
4. The Memoirs of Chateaubriand — François-René de Chateaubriand — The Romantic aristocrat on the Revolution, Napoleon and himself. Penguin Classics.
5. The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead — Sam Pollit, the most monstrous father in fiction, and the Baltimore household he rules. Stead’s Australian masterpiece. Penguin Modern Classics.
6. A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess — Alex, the droogs, the Ludovico Technique. Penguin edition with the cog-eye cover.
7. The Chosen — Chaim Potok — Two Brooklyn boys, one Hasidic, one not, and a baseball that nearly blinds one of them. Film tie-in Penguin.
8. Plays — Oscar Wilde — Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest and Salomé. Penguin Plays.
9. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories — Ernest Hemingway — The title story and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Penguin Modern Classics.
10. Eating People Is Wrong — Malcolm Bradbury — A redbrick professor who can’t say no. The first campus novel. Penguin.
11. A Burnt-Out Case — Graham Greene — A famous architect hides in a Congo leper colony. Penguin.
12. Orlando — Virginia Woolf — Panther edition with the portrait cover.
13. The Golovlovs — M. Saltykov-Shchedrin — The most repulsive family in Russian literature. Signet Classic.
14. The Power and the Glory — Graham Greene — The whisky priest on the run in Mexico. Greene’s best. Penguin.
15. Medea and Other Plays — Euripides — Medea kills her children; Jason watches. Penguin Classics.
16. The Fig Tree — Aubrey Menen — A satire of science and sex in India. Penguin.
17. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë — Handlettered-cover edition.
18. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville — Penguin English Library edition.
19. The Tempest — William Shakespeare — Signet Classic.
20. Peyton Place — Grace Metalious — The 1956 scandal: incest, abortion and murder in a New Hampshire town. Pan Giant.
21. Le Grand Meaulnes — Alain-Fournier — A lost domain, a party, and the only novel its author lived to write. Penguin Modern Classics.
22. Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev — Bazarov the nihilist and the generation he scorns. Penguin Classics.
23. The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs — Aristophanes — Three comedies. Penguin Classics.
24. Phormio and Other Plays — Terence — Roman comedy, the source of Molière. Penguin Classics.