T. S. Eliot considered the Aeneid to be the most important single work in Western literature: the supreme literary achievement of the most influential culture in European history and the standard by which all subsequent works were to be judged.
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One of the world's greatest living illustrators matched to the world's sharpest satirist: it's a perfect, creative combination that has produced a superb interpretation of French literature's most enduring classic text. This highly collectible edition of Voltaire's Candide, illustrated by Quentin Blake, and signed by the artist, is limited to 1,000 numbered copies.
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Gulliver’s Travels is a complex, multi-layered work that can be read as adventure, satire, comedy and profound philosophical exploration of human nature and society. For this collector’s edition, The Folio Society approached the artist and writer Peter Suart, whose response is at once wickedly comic and engagingly cerebral.
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Ovid’s epic poem is brought together with Titian’s paintings for the first time in this landmark publication. 'Its beauty adds a new aesthetic pleasure to that already provided by Ovid and Titian.’ – Lord Eatwell, President of Queen's College, Cambridge.
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Herman Melville's tale of the hunt for the white whale, Moby-Dick, is one of the greatest novels of all time. This limited edition contains the classic illustrations of Rockwell Kent.
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Charles Doughty travelled on foot and rode by camel around an area the size of France, a region so desolate that it was occupied by just a few tens of thousands of people. This Folio edition celebrates the masterpiece born from his journey.
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