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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For compelling narrative of love, hate, revenge and redemption, few books in history can match Les Misérables. Now presenting a Folio limited edition of one of history’s greatest works of fiction. Limited to 1,750 copies.
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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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One of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature, The Sound and the Fury has challenged and exhilarated readers in equal measures. Now, printed as the author originally intended, this unique edition is a landmark of publishing.
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