Animal Farm
George Orwell
Orwell's chilling farmyard parody of Soviet Russia is brought vividly to life with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
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Modern Fiction
With some of the classics of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Folio Society publishes a captivating selection of modern fiction books. Whether modernist masterpieces of the early 20th century or recent Booker prize winners, this collection gloriously showcases the achievements of recent literature. Each book comes with beautiful illustrations and a striking, original hardback binding. See below for the full list of Folio Modern Fiction books.
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is an unforgettable portrait of an impoverished American family. This edition is introduced by William Gay, and vividly illustrated by Katherine Hardy.
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
Igor Karash won the second House of Illustration/Folio Society Illustration Award for his work on Angela Carter's seminal retellings of fairy tales.
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Blue at the Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian
With Napoleon finally defeated, Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set out for South America to help the Chilean's fight for independence, but with desertions, collisions and love affairs their voyage may be more treacherous than expected. The last novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
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Brat Farrar
Josephine Tey
Tragedy has hit the Ashby family too often. The young parents of 13-year-old twin boys died in a plane crash; the elder twin, Patrick, later vanished, leaving a suicide note at the top of the cliffs near their home. His brother became heir to the family property but now, just weeks before his 21st birthday, a young man appears claiming to be Patrick.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Captain Yossarian is a rebel with a cause: to avoid flying the bombing missions over Italy and France that sooner or later will almost certainly result in his own death.
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Clarissa Oakes
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey and Maturin set off on their homeward voyage, but between warring Pacific islands and a mysterious female stowaway, the HMS Surprise must chart a treacherous course. The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin installment.
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The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian
After adventures in the South Seas Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England. However, their homecoming is far from tranquil with Maturin beset by family problems and Aubrey almost immediately dispatched to West Africa to fight the slave trade, a noble mission which may have a concealed purpose. The seventeenth instalment of the Aubrey- Maturin series.
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Count Belisarius
Robert Graves
Robert Graves who brought Classical Rome to life with I, Claudius and Claudius the God, performed no less a feat for the Byzantine Empire with this epic novel of its greatest general, written in 1938.
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Cover Her Face
P. D. James
The perfect English country house murder mystery, Cover Her Face is an brilliant addition to the genre by one of its greatest practitioners.
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer
Anthony Powell
Spanning a 50-year period, Anthony Powell’s masterpiece deploys a cast of over 300 characters, and sweeps us from the upper-class milieux of the 1920s to the rise of hippiedom in the 1960s. The second volume, Summer, is set in the 1930s, culminating in the declaration of the Second World War.
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Winter
Anthony Powell
Spanning a 50-year period, Anthony Powell’s masterpiece deploys a cast of over 300 characters, and sweeps us from the upper-class milieux of the 1920s to the rise of hippiedom in the 1960s. Winter is an appropriately blackly comic and sweeping conclusion to Powell’s magnum opus.
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Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey and Maturin set sail for Australia to rescue Governor William Bligh from the settlers rebelling against his rule. The fifth installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series.
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Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
A lecturer at a technical university has an affair with a student, is found out and resigns under a cloud of scandal and recrimination. He seeks refuge with his daughter, who ekes out a living alone on an isolated farm, protected by dogs and a gun. But a brutal attack underlines the fact that here, in the Eastern Cape of post-apartheid South Africa, the bitterness of history is ever-present.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s classic envisages a dystopian future in which the job of firemen is to seek out books and burn them. In this edition, introduced by Michael Moorcock, Sam Weber’s astonishing illustrations perfectly capture the novel’s haunting atmosphere.
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