Very good condition, boxed set of 8 vintage classic books:
- Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee (1959) - a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood, growing up in a Cotswold village, in a time before electricity or cars - line drawings
- The Long March, William Styron (1952) - two marine reservists fight to maintain their dignity while on a gruelling exercise staged by a posturing colonel
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (1929) - the harrowing reality of the First World War as seen through the eyes of a young German soldier
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf ( 1927) - a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1973) - a novel in six parts with epilogue
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960) - a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird, a black man charged with the rape of a white girl in the Deep South of the thirties
- The Italian Girl, Iris Murdoch (1964) - Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeralhe finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones.
- The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925) - exhibits the classic model of the terror state
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