Great works of literature which have lasted through the ages. The Folio Society publishes a diverse collection of classic fiction books, from the earliest stories of the ancient Greeks to the invention of the novel in the 19th century. Folio books include specially commissioned introductions from leading academics and authors as well beautiful illustrations and specially designed hardback covers. See below for the full list of Folio Classic Fiction books.
Bored by her calculating husband and eager to live life, Anna falls in love, but her grand passion is doomed to end unhappily. Against this ruinous affair are set the stories of other loves, other marriages and an unsurpassed portrait of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century.
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Weaving together two strands of Dutch history – the brutal, political murder that brought William of Orange to power and the phenomenon of tulipomania – Alexandre Dumas creates a portrait of ambition, from the coldly Machiavellian manoeuvres of William of Orange to the idées fixes that can obsess even a good man.
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This illustrated edition brings together all the surviving Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, in the acclaimed University of Chicago translations, with newly commissioned prefaces.
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This complete set of all seven novels makes a treasured gift for those who already know and love the books or the perfect introduction to children who have not yet discovered their magic.
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Populated by some of Dickens’s most memorable characters, Bleak House (1852-3) is a devastating satire on the evils of the English legal system and the state of Victorian society.
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At the heart of this collection is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved works: A Christmas Carol. This and his other seasonal novellas have become part of Christmas itself, reminding us of simple family pleasures and the value of goodwill.
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Dickens’s famously autobiographical novel tells of a rootless orphan who overcomes poverty to become a famous novelist.
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In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero finds that 'great expectations' are not enough when it comes to the real business of living.
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When the starving boys of the workhouse draw lots to decide who shall ask for extra gruel, it is Oliver who pulls the short straw. Banished by Mr Bumble, apprenticed to an undertaker, and adopted into Fagin's den of thieves, Oliver somehow survives, his essential innocence and goodness intact.
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The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) launched Dickens's career in riotous style. A rollicking romp through the coaching England of Dickens’s youth, in which the adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends never fail to delight.
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Dickens's story of the French aristocrat Charles Darnay and dissolute barrister Sydney Carton, drawn together by the love of the same woman, reaches its memorable climax in the bloody cauldron of Paris during the Terror.
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Mingling 19th-century anxieties with the oldest terrors of European myth, Dracula is one of the greatest of all gothic novels, and still has the power to chill the blood.
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A group of middle-aged men sit together after dinner and the conversation turns to first love. One of them, Vladimir Petrovich, tells his story ... As a 16-year-old, spending the summer at his parents’ country house, he glimpses ‘a tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress’: the young princess Zinaida.
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In a Glass Darkly presents a series of five stories from the casebook of Dr Martin Hesselius, a physician interested in ‘metaphysical’ maladies. The acknowledged master of the supernatural genre, writer Sheridan Le Fanu's short stories blend elements of Gothic horror, Irish folklore and psychological realism with uniquely unsettling and convincing results.
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Successive generations have been spellbound by the exploits of Frodo, Gandalf and their comrades as they journey towards Mordor to do battle with the Dark Lord Sauron.
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