{"product_id":"secondhand-penguin-modern-classics-bargain-book-box-sp2940","title":"Secondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP2940","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP2940\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-four volumes drawn almost entirely from the Penguin Modern Classics list — the orange-and-white spines that defined serious reading for a generation. Lawrence, Fitzgerald, Mann, three Orwells, four Dostoyevskys, two Steinbecks, Borges, Kesey, Greene, and Süskind. A box for anyone building (or rebuilding) a serious modern fiction shelf.\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\"\u003eSons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence — Lawrence's most autobiographical novel: Paul Morel in a Nottinghamshire mining family, torn between a possessive mother and the women he tries to love. The defining portrait of Lawrence's world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead — A genuinely disturbing portrait of a brilliant, monstrous patriarch and the family he dominates. Ignored on publication, rediscovered as a masterpiece forty years later.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCrome Yellow — Aldous Huxley — Huxley's debut: a house party at a country estate, a young poet who cannot talk to women, and a parade of characters skewering the intellectual fashions of 1921. Wickedly funny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eTender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald — A psychiatrist who married his patient, his slow self-destruction in the social world of the French Riviera, and the question of who saved whom. Fitzgerald's most personal and most complex novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann — Hans Castorp arrives at a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium for a three-week visit and stays for seven years. Mann's greatest novel and one of the great monuments of European modernism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell — Orwell's first book: the year he spent broke and hungry, washing dishes in Paris hotel kitchens and tramping between London doss-houses. The best account he ever wrote of what poverty actually feels like.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier — George Orwell — The first half investigates working-class life in the industrial north; the second is a bracing argument with the middle-class left about why socialism persistently fails to persuade the people it claims to champion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eOf Mice and Men — John Steinbeck — George and Lennie, two ranch workers with a dream of their own land. One of the most perfectly made short novels in American literature, and one of the most heartbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Midwich Cuckoos — John Wyndham — Every woman in an English village falls mysteriously pregnant; the golden-eyed children born that year begin to develop powers their parents cannot control. Wyndham's most chilling novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAnimal Farm — George Orwell — The pigs lead the revolution and become the oppressors. The allegory was aimed at Stalinist Russia and outlasted it by several decades.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLabyrinths — Jorge Luis Borges — The essential Borges: libraries that contain every book, detectives who solve murders they couldn't have witnessed, gardens of forking paths. The most influential short fiction of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Beach — Alex Garland — A backpacker discovers a map to a secret beach in Thailand and finds the utopian community already there is considerably more fragile than it looks. The novel that launched Garland's career.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSometimes a Great Notion — Ken Kesey — The Stamper family refuses to join a loggers' strike in Oregon, and Kesey builds his most ambitious novel — twice the length of Cuckoo's Nest — around the collision of family loyalty, class resentment, and sheer stubbornness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain — Huck and the escaped slave Jim, rafting down the Mississippi away from civilisation. The novel Hemingway said all of American literature came from.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck — The Joad family's migration from the Dust Bowl to California, in search of work that isn't there. Steinbeck's anger is barely contained by the form.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eNotes from Underground \/ White Nights \/ The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Dostoyevsky — The Underground Man's furious, contradictory monologue: a man who knows exactly what he should do, does the opposite, and explains at length why this proves he is free. Dostoyevsky's most radical psychological creation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDoctor Faustus — Thomas Mann — A German composer sells his soul to a devil and writes music of transcendent, terrifying genius. Mann's darkest novel, written as Germany collapsed around him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Devils — Dostoyevsky — Based on a real nihilist murder case: a provincial town invaded by revolutionary conspirators whose ideology is indistinguishable from madness. Dostoyevsky's most politically fierce novel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMaster and Man and Other Parables and Tales — Leo Tolstoy — Late Tolstoy in moral-fable mode: \"Master and Man\" is his most powerful short novel, a snowstorm and a single act of self-sacrifice that redeems a lifetime of selfishness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBrighton Rock — Graham Greene — Pinkie Brown, a seventeen-year-old gang boss with a razor, moves through the Brighton racecourse world of the 1930s. Greene's Catholic thriller: about guilt, grace, and the difference between justice and damnation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Gambler \/ Bobok: A Nasty Story — Dostoyevsky — \"The Gambler\" was dictated in four weeks to pay a publisher's debt and draws on Dostoyevsky's own ruinous addiction to roulette. \"Bobok\" is darker still — a hallucinatory scene set in a graveyard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePerfume: The Story of a Murderer — Patrick Süskind — Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has no personal scent but the most extraordinary nose in eighteenth-century France, and he will kill for the ingredients of a perfect fragrance. One of the great one-off novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Call of the Wild \u0026amp; White Fang — Jack London — Two great survival stories, companion novels: a domestic dog's reversion to wildness in the Yukon, and a wolf-dog's gradual domestication. London at his most elemental.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Idiot — Dostoyevsky — Prince Myshkin — epileptic, Christ-like, and totally unprepared for St Petersburg society — attempts to do good in a world that has no use for goodness. One of the four great novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49060226564315,"sku":"SP2940","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2940.jpg?v=1785807612","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-penguin-modern-classics-bargain-book-box-sp2940","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}