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Secondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP4149

Twenty-one literary paperbacks, most in vintage Penguin Modern Classics: Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson’s Ultima Thule, Patrick White’s Tree of Man, Kawabata, Muriel Spark, Huxley, Akenfield, Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber, Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, David Malouf’s Johnno, Chekhov, Macbeth, David Copperfield, Moby Dick, Antonia Fraser, Jean Plaidy and The Portable Oscar Wilde. Strong on Australian fiction.

  1. The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition — Jean Plaidy — Torquemada, the autos-da-fé and the expulsion of the Jews, from the novelist who also wrote history. The first of her Inquisition trilogy.
  2. The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, Part One — Antonia Fraser — Guy Fawkes and the Catholic conspirators, in the first half of Fraser’s two-part paperback. Why they did it, and what the government did back.
  3. Ultima Thule — Henry Handel Richardson — The final volume of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: the doctor’s decline into madness and his wife Mary’s endurance. The greatest Australian novel of its era, in Penguin Modern Classics.
  4. The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead — Sam Pollit, the most monstrous father in fiction, and the Baltimore household he rules with jokes. Written about Stead’s own Sydney childhood; Jonathan Franzen called it a masterpiece. Penguin Modern Classics.
  5. The Sound of the Mountain — Yasunari Kawabata — An old man in post-war Kamakura, his failing memory, and his daughter-in-law. Kawabata’s quietest novel, and the Nobel laureate’s best. Penguin.
  6. The Public Image — Muriel Spark — A film star in Rome whose husband kills himself to destroy her reputation. Booker shortlist 1969; Spark at her coldest and sharpest. Penguin.
  7. Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell — Orwell goes to Spain to fight fascism, is shot through the throat, and watches the Communists destroy the revolution from the inside. The best book on the Spanish Civil War, and the one that made Animal Farm inevitable. Penguin.
  8. Chekhov: Five Plays — Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Ronald Hingley’s translation. World’s Classics.
  9. Macbeth — William Shakespeare — The witches, the dagger, the blood that won’t wash off. New Penguin Shakespeare, the edition with the full notes.
  10. David Copperfield — Charles Dickens — Murdstone, Micawber, Steerforth and Uriah Heep. Dickens’s own favourite, and the closest to his life. Penguin Classics.
  11. After Many a Summer — Aldous Huxley — A Hollywood millionaire pays a scientist to make him immortal, and the eighteenth-century earl who got there first is still alive, in a cellar. Huxley’s California satire. Penguin Modern Classics.
  12. Akenfield — Ronald Blythe — A Suffolk village in 1967, in the words of its people: the blacksmith, the gravedigger, the farmworker, the vicar. The most famous portrait of English rural life. Penguin.
  13. The Tree of Man — Patrick White — Stan and Amy Parker clear a patch of bush, build a house and live a whole life in it. White’s most loved novel. Penguin Modern Classics.
  14. The Money Game — ‘Adam Smith’ — Wall Street in the 1960s, by a pseudonymous insider: the game is money, and the players are irrational. Number-one bestseller of the year. Dell.
  15. Seven Miles from Sydney — Lesley Thomson — A dancer, a murder, and the Sydney underworld. Pandora.
  16. Moby Dick — Herman Melville — Call me Ishmael, then the whale. Vintage Classics edition with the wave pattern.
  17. Running in the Family — Michael Ondaatje — The English Patient author goes home to Sri Lanka to find his drunk, brilliant, impossible father. Memoir, fiction and poetry in one; a truly magical world, says Maxine Hong Kingston. Picador.
  18. The Bloody Chamber — Angela Carter — Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood and the rest, retold with the sex and violence put back. The book that made Carter. Penguin.
  19. Johnno — David Malouf — Brisbane in the 1940s, Dante and his wild friend Johnno, and the generation that went to hell. Malouf’s first novel, and still the great Brisbane book. Penguin.
  20. The Portable Oscar Wilde — ed. Richard Aldington — Dorian Gray complete, De Profundis, Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, and the poems, essays and letters. 700 pages. Viking Portable.

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Secondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP4149

Twenty-one literary paperbacks, most in vintage Penguin Modern Classics: Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson’s Ultima Thule, Patrick White’s Tree of Man, Kawabata, Muriel Spark, Huxley, Akenfield, Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber, Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, David Malouf’s Johnno, Chekhov, Macbeth, David Copperfield, Moby Dick, Antonia Fraser, Jean Plaidy and The Portable Oscar Wilde. Strong on Australian fiction.

  1. The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition — Jean Plaidy — Torquemada, the autos-da-fé and the expulsion of the Jews, from the novelist who also wrote history. The first of her Inquisition trilogy.
  2. The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, Part One — Antonia Fraser — Guy Fawkes and the Catholic conspirators, in the first half of Fraser’s two-part paperback. Why they did it, and what the government did back.
  3. Ultima Thule — Henry Handel Richardson — The final volume of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: the doctor’s decline into madness and his wife Mary’s endurance. The greatest Australian novel of its era, in Penguin Modern Classics.
  4. The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead — Sam Pollit, the most monstrous father in fiction, and the Baltimore household he rules with jokes. Written about Stead’s own Sydney childhood; Jonathan Franzen called it a masterpiece. Penguin Modern Classics.
  5. The Sound of the Mountain — Yasunari Kawabata — An old man in post-war Kamakura, his failing memory, and his daughter-in-law. Kawabata’s quietest novel, and the Nobel laureate’s best. Penguin.
  6. The Public Image — Muriel Spark — A film star in Rome whose husband kills himself to destroy her reputation. Booker shortlist 1969; Spark at her coldest and sharpest. Penguin.
  7. Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell — Orwell goes to Spain to fight fascism, is shot through the throat, and watches the Communists destroy the revolution from the inside. The best book on the Spanish Civil War, and the one that made Animal Farm inevitable. Penguin.
  8. Chekhov: Five Plays — Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Ronald Hingley’s translation. World’s Classics.
  9. Macbeth — William Shakespeare — The witches, the dagger, the blood that won’t wash off. New Penguin Shakespeare, the edition with the full notes.
  10. David Copperfield — Charles Dickens — Murdstone, Micawber, Steerforth and Uriah Heep. Dickens’s own favourite, and the closest to his life. Penguin Classics.
  11. After Many a Summer — Aldous Huxley — A Hollywood millionaire pays a scientist to make him immortal, and the eighteenth-century earl who got there first is still alive, in a cellar. Huxley’s California satire. Penguin Modern Classics.
  12. Akenfield — Ronald Blythe — A Suffolk village in 1967, in the words of its people: the blacksmith, the gravedigger, the farmworker, the vicar. The most famous portrait of English rural life. Penguin.
  13. The Tree of Man — Patrick White — Stan and Amy Parker clear a patch of bush, build a house and live a whole life in it. White’s most loved novel. Penguin Modern Classics.
  14. The Money Game — ‘Adam Smith’ — Wall Street in the 1960s, by a pseudonymous insider: the game is money, and the players are irrational. Number-one bestseller of the year. Dell.
  15. Seven Miles from Sydney — Lesley Thomson — A dancer, a murder, and the Sydney underworld. Pandora.
  16. Moby Dick — Herman Melville — Call me Ishmael, then the whale. Vintage Classics edition with the wave pattern.
  17. Running in the Family — Michael Ondaatje — The English Patient author goes home to Sri Lanka to find his drunk, brilliant, impossible father. Memoir, fiction and poetry in one; a truly magical world, says Maxine Hong Kingston. Picador.
  18. The Bloody Chamber — Angela Carter — Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood and the rest, retold with the sex and violence put back. The book that made Carter. Penguin.
  19. Johnno — David Malouf — Brisbane in the 1940s, Dante and his wild friend Johnno, and the generation that went to hell. Malouf’s first novel, and still the great Brisbane book. Penguin.
  20. The Portable Oscar Wilde — ed. Richard Aldington — Dorian Gray complete, De Profundis, Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, and the poems, essays and letters. 700 pages. Viking Portable.