Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2983

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2983

Twenty-one Penguin Modern Classics and vintage paperbacks — Doris Lessing (four titles), Rudyard Kipling (three), Elizabeth Gaskell (two), V.S. Naipaul (two), Henry James (two), and single volumes by Isaac Babel, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Henry Green, D.H. Lawrence, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. A box for serious readers.

1. Collected Stories — Isaac Babel — The great Russian Jewish writer's stories of the Cossacks, the Odessa criminals, and the chaos of revolution. Some of the most intense short fiction of the twentieth century.
2. The Forsyte Saga — John Galsworthy — The complete Forsyte Saga in one volume: the rise and fall of an upper-middle-class English family across three generations, from the Victorian era to the 1920s. Wordsworth Classics edition.
3. Finnegans Wake — James Joyce — Joyce's final, most radical work: a dream-language novel that dissolves individual consciousness into the river of human history. The Viking Compass edition.
4. The Grass is Singing — Doris Lessing — A white farm wife in Southern Rhodesia, her African servant, and a relationship that ends in murder. Lessing's devastating debut.
5. A Proper Marriage — Doris Lessing — The second Children of Violence novel: Martha Quest's wartime marriage in Rhodesia and her growing political awareness as the colonial world begins to collapse.
6. Short Stories Vol. 2: Friendly Brook and Other Stories — Rudyard Kipling — The second volume of Kipling's short stories in the Penguin Modern Classics edition.
7. Nabokov's Dozen — Vladimir Nabokov — Thirteen stories: elegant, precisely observed, shot through with the melancholy of exile and lost worlds.
8. The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus — Camus's philosophical essay on the absurd: if life has no inherent meaning, why not suicide? The answer — and Sisyphus at his boulder — became one of the defining statements of postwar thought.
9. Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell — A Manchester mill worker's daughter caught between labour and capital. Gaskell's first novel and one of the great social novels of the nineteenth century.
10. Selected Short Stories — Henry James — Penguin Modern Classics edition including "Daisy Miller," "The Last of the Valerii," "The Real Thing," and "The Lesson of the Master."
11. Five: Five Short Novels — Doris Lessing — A Home for the Highland Cattle, The Other Woman, Eldorado, The Antheap, and Hunger: five Lessing novellas in one vintage Penguin volume.
12. Loving — Henry Green — A country house in wartime Ireland, seen entirely from the servants' perspective. One of the strangest and most beautiful English novels of the 1940s.
13. Selected Essays — D.H. Lawrence — Lawrence's non-fiction: his responses to the places he lived, the writers he read, and the culture he spent his life arguing with.
14. Going Home — Doris Lessing — Lessing's 1956 memoir of returning to Southern Rhodesia: a document of colonial Africa on the eve of change.
15. Labyrinths — Jorge Luis Borges — The essential Borges: "The Garden of Forking Paths," "The Library of Babel," "Pierre Menard," and the stories that invented a new kind of fiction.
16. North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell — A woman from the rural south moves to the industrial north and is forced to rethink everything she believes about class, work, and power.
17. A Bend in the River — V.S. Naipaul — A merchant in an unnamed central African country watches the optimism of independence turn into something darker. One of Naipaul's finest novels.
18. India: A Wounded Civilization — V.S. Naipaul — Naipaul's confronting account of his 1975 journey through India in the shadow of the Emergency: the poverty, the religious conservatism, and the gap between aspiration and reality.
19. The Light that Failed — Rudyard Kipling — A war artist goes blind in London; the woman he loves cannot return his feelings. Kipling's first novel: raw, uneven, and unlike anything before or after.
20. Short Stories Vol. 1: A Sahibs' War and Other Stories — Rudyard Kipling — The first volume of Kipling's short stories in the Penguin Modern Classics edition.
21. Washington Square — Henry James — A plain, wealthy young woman, a charming suitor who may be a fortune-hunter, and a father determined not to be deceived. James's most devastating novel.