Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2967

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2967

Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Pan paperbacks — three Hemingway titles, Tolstoy, Sartre, Austen, Wilkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Turgenev, Thomas Mann, Joseph Heller, Robert Graves, Thurber, Brontë, Zola, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more. A beautiful box of the orange-and-cream era.

1. Anna Karenin — Leo Tolstoy — Tolstoy's greatest novel: a married woman's passion for Count Vronsky, and the Petersburg society that will not forgive her. Penguin Classics edition.
2. Emma — Jane Austen — The village matchmaker who misreads every situation, including her own heart. Penguin English Library edition.
3. The Age of Reason — Jean-Paul Sartre — The first Roads to Freedom novel: Mathieu Delarue, Parisian philosophy teacher, trying to raise money for an abortion while arguing about freedom with everyone he meets.
4. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins — The first detective novel in English: a diamond stolen from a Hindu idol, a houseful of suspects, and a mystery that reaches from an English country house to India.
5. Women in Love — D.H. Lawrence — The sequel to The Rainbow: two sisters, two men, the industrial Midlands, and Lawrence's most intense exploration of the war between the sexes.
6. Home of the Gentry — Ivan Turgenev — A young Russian nobleman returns from abroad to find that the woman he loves has married another. Turgenev's most lyrical and elegiac novel.
7. Death in Venice / Tristan / Tonio Kröger — Thomas Mann — Three novellas in one Penguin Modern Classics volume: the disintegrating obsession of "Death in Venice," the romantic agony of "Tristan," and the divided artist of "Tonio Kröger."
8. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller — The definitive anti-war novel: bombardier Yossarian trying to stay sane in a military world that rewards insanity.
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway — An American in the Spanish Civil War, a three-day mission to destroy a bridge, and the woman he falls in love with. Hemingway's most politically engaged novel.
10. Stories — Sean O'Faolain — Selected stories from the Irish master of the form: the small lives of provincial Ireland, observed with precision and sympathy.
11. The Marquise of O & Other Stories — Heinrich von Kleist — Penguin Classics edition: "The Marquise of O," "Michael Kohlhaas," and others — stories of injustice, obsession, and moral crisis.
12. Men Without Women — Ernest Hemingway — The short story collection that includes "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," and "In Another Country." Hemingway's compression at its most lethal.
13. I, Claudius — Robert Graves — The magnificently reconstructed memoirs of the Emperor Claudius: from his humiliating childhood to his unexpected accession.
14. The Thurber Carnival — James Thurber — The essential Thurber: essays, stories, fables, and drawings from America's greatest comic writer.
15. Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises) — Ernest Hemingway — The Lost Generation in Paris and Pamplona, the corrida, and a love that can never be consummated. The Great Pan edition.
16. Some Notes on Lifemanship — Stephen Potter — Potter's satirical guide to getting the better of others without actually doing anything better.
17. Villette — Charlotte Brontë — A young Englishwoman teaching in a Belgian school, and the love she cannot allow herself to acknowledge. Penguin English Library edition.
18. Baby Doll — Tennessee Williams — The screenplay of Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 film: one of Williams's most provocative works of Southern Gothic.
19. Thérèse Raquin — Émile Zola — A passionate affair, a murder in a rowing boat, and the slow psychological disintegration of the killers. Zola's most concentrated and disturbing novel.
20. The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Thornton Wilder — Five people die when a rope bridge collapses in Peru; a monk sets out to discover whether their deaths had meaning. Pulitzer Prize winner.
21. Supermanship — Stephen Potter — More from the creator of Gamesmanship: the art of appearing superior in all circumstances.
22. Come in Spinner — Dymphna Cusack & Florence James — The great Australian prize-winning novel of wartime Sydney: the women of a beauty salon, the men who come and go, and the city's moral transformation under the influence of American money and GIs.
23. Tender is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald — Dick Diver, brilliant psychiatrist on the French Riviera, and the marriage and career that slowly come apart. Fitzgerald's most personal novel.
24. Choo Woo —