There are 10 novels in this package, all literary fiction and all preowned.
The Three Cornered World by Natsume Soseki
Arrow publication paperback, 1984. 184 pages, ISBN 0099396106
In a very good preowned condition, light creasing to cover, pages tanned, binding strong. A key work in the Japanese transition from traditional to modern literature.
This novel has been cherished by generations of readers as a glittering jewel in the crown of Soseki's artistic achievement. Beautifully written, humorous, and filled with bittersweet reflections on the human condition, this work was intended as a unique "haiku-novel" with a mood utterly different to anything ever produced in the West. Demonstrating along the way a mastery of everything from Western painting to Chinese literature, Soseki succeeded in creating an artistic tour-de-force.
SABRA by Nigel Slater
Fontana paperback, 1985 ISBN 0006172261
Besides the pages being tanned and shelf wear with dust marks, the book is in a very strong and neat condition, unread copy.
Bullion - John Goldsmith
ISBN 0099317508, paperback, published by Arrow books 1983.
Number of Pages301 inclusive of epilogue, dimensions approx width: 105mm x height: 177mm
Pages are yellowing, spine intact, binding tight. A nice clean copy.
Boomerang by Joy Packer (SA writer)
First publication 1972 by Eyre Methuen, London. Hardcover with dust jacket, pre-owned good condition. Dust jacket was frayed and has been repaired, the binding is good and the book is quite clean. Lightly yellowed pages with mottling on page edges. The blue hard board cover is slightly dust stained on the edges with light scuffing.
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
Paperback, published by Granada Ltd 1983
American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles' books, which is about three young Americans of the postwar generation who go on a walkabout into Northern Africa's own arid heart of darkness. In the process, the veneer of their lives is peeled back under the author's psychological inquiry.
Up Above The World by Paul Bowles.
Paperback, Arena Books published by Arrow Books 1984. Unread copy, pages tanned and lightly soiled from dust and a small stain to fore-edge.
The author leads the reader beneath the surface of hospitality and luxury into a tortuous maze of human relationships and shifting moods, until what seems at first a merely casual encounter is seen to be one rooted in viciousness and horror.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles.
Paperback, 1987 Pan Book. Discarded library book, pages tanned, staining and binding is a bit loose, a readable copy in fair condition. The story of Charles Smithson's infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry. The author re-creates the feel of a Victorian novel.
Winters Tale (1983) by Mark Helprin.
Paperback, ISBN 0099367904 Arrow publication 1984. Unread copy in fine condition, 799 pages inclusive of epilogue.
A dazzling epic of lovers and dreamers, eccentrics and beauties, madmen and geniuses...
Requiem for a Wren aka The Breaking Wave by Nevil Shute (1955)
Paperback, Pan book 1971, discarded library book - a good readable copy, normal library tags and damage to the first book page from them. Pages are tanned and there is some stains.
A deeply moving story of friendship and enduring love which brings to a vivid reality the silent tensions of everyday life in England before D-Day. The events of those crowded days, and their aftermath, are told with a compassionate brilliance which shows why Nevil Shute remains among the world's most popular storytellers.
IN THE WET by Nevil Shute (1953).
Hardcover, Heinemann London publication 1971. Discarded library book, 354 pages, 115 mm x 180 mm, wih dust jacket, book is complete, cover to pages taped in front, spine taped.
Nevil Shute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict. In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in 1983 through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II.
