Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction & Essays Bargain Book Box SP2982

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction & Essays Bargain Book Box SP2982

Fourteen vintage Penguin and classics paperbacks spanning the full range of literary ambition — George Eliot, Dickens, Hardy, Byron, Peacock, Orwell, Kafka, Nabokov, Thomas Wolfe, Montaigne, Aldous Huxley, and the early Penguin Book of Australian Verse. A box for readers who want the real thing.

1. The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot — Maggie Tulliver, her impossible family, and the river that will determine everything. Eliot's most autobiographical novel and one of the most emotionally devastating in the language. Penguin Classics edition.
2. Bleak House — Charles Dickens — The interminable lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the fog of the Court of Chancery, and the mystery at the heart of Esther Summerson's life. Dickens's most structurally ambitious novel. Penguin Classics edition.
3. Nightmare Abbey / Crochet Castle — Thomas Love Peacock — Two satirical novels from the Regency wit who skewered the Gothic novel and the intellectual fashions of his day. Peacock's targets include Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron. Penguin English Library edition.
4. Don Juan — Lord Byron — Byron's comic epic: the seductions, the shipwrecks, the wars, and the satire that shocked Regency England. The most entertaining long poem in the language.
5. Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy — A stonemason dreams of Oxford; the woman he marries destroys his ambitions; the woman he loves cannot save him. Hardy's final and most bitter novel. St Martin's Library edition.
6. Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell — Orwell's account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War: the idealism, the disillusionment, the near-fatal bullet in the throat, and the betrayal of the revolutionary left. Penguin edition.
7. Metamorphosis and Other Stories — Franz Kafka — The definitive Kafka collection including "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "The Judgment." Penguin Modern Classics edition.
8. Selected Essays — George Orwell — The essential Orwell non-fiction: "The Prevention of Literature," "England Your England," "Inside the Whale," "Down the Mine," "Boys' Weeklies," "Shooting an Elephant," and others. Penguin Books edition.
9. Daniel Deronda — George Eliot — Eliot's last and most ambitious novel: a Jewish musician, an English gentleman discovering his origins, and the twin stories that gradually reveal themselves to be one. Penguin English Library edition.
10. The Penguin Book of Australian Verse — ed. John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor & R.G. Howarth — The early Penguin anthology that introduced generations of readers to Australian verse.
11. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight — Vladimir Nabokov — A half-brother attempts to write a biography of the dead novelist Sebastian Knight — and finds that the life keeps slipping away from him. Nabokov's first English-language novel.
12. The Web and the Rock — Thomas Wolfe — The autobiographical second novel: George Webber goes to New York, falls in love with an older woman, and tries to become a writer. Penguin Modern Classics edition.
13. The Complete Essays — Michel de Montaigne, translated by M.A. Screech — Screech's landmark Penguin Classics translation: Montaigne on friendship, experience, cannibals, sleep, and the art of living.
14. Music at Night and Other Essays — Aldous Huxley — Huxley's essays on music, literature, art, and ideas: wide-ranging, erudite, and characteristically provocative. Penguin edition.