A magical union of make-believe and reality, this much-loved young-adult fantasy spirits the reader off to faraway lands with an evil witch, a dashing wizard and an adventurous teenage girl. Folio’s charming new edition celebrates master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones’s creativity, alongside that of Folio’ 2019 Book Illustration Competition winner. Selected from a record-breaking 500 entries from around the world, Marie-Alice Harel re-enchants the fairy-tale tradition with her series of six images created with a lilac-themed palate. Harel also introduces the book’ 21 chapters with delicate black-and-white decorations that offer tantalising clues to the story, while the binding shows heroine Sophie Hatter being magnetically drawn to the gloomy castle of the title, with its mysterious four-fold aspect.
A magical union of make-believe and reality, this much-loved young-adult fantasy spirits the reader off to faraway lands with an evil witch, a dashing wizard and an adventurous…
In this fascinating study, historian Richard Barber examines the elaborate pomp and ceremony of the medieval court festival, revealing as he does so its wider cultural and political importance. This volume is published exclusively by The Folio Society.
In this fascinating study, historian Richard Barber examines the elaborate pomp and ceremony of the medieval court festival, revealing as he does so its wider cultural and…
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way--to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who…
A truly informative narrative of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Britain. The black death invaded Europe during the middle ages. But it didn't just roll through and then disappear from the scene. Several hundred years later the plague returned to England in 1665 (Remember to avoid that year if you get a chance to go back in time). Mr. Bell talks about Defoe's book on the subject and how it is actually a work of fiction. He uses the death rolls that have been preserved to get an idea about what parts of the city the plague struck and how badly. He estimates about 100,000 people died in London and surrounding areas. The plague eventually died out and then inexplicably has never really returned. No one really knows why. Even if a modern person was bitten by a flea carrying the plague by the time you figured out you needed to the hospital there is a good chance you would not make it.
Bell gives the names of the heroes and the cowards of the time. The great Albemarle, the only member of the Court to remain in London throughout as did Lawrence the mayor. While the contemptible Charles II and his mistresses and sycophants caroused in Oxford a thousand people a day died just sixty miles away. He describes the disease and its consequences the plague pits, bodies lying in the street, the dead carts. An horrendous insight into the "poore's plague", so named because not one of the nobles died of it.
A truly informative narrative of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Britain. The black death invaded Europe during the middle ages. But it didn't just roll through…
9" x 6¼", 416pp, dark-green buckram, spine and front-board blocked with an elaborate design in gold (incorporationg the usual lettering), hardback. Illustrated with monochrome drawings within the text by Charles Stewart.
9" x 6¼", 416pp, dark-green buckram, spine and front-board blocked with an elaborate design in gold (incorporationg the usual lettering), hardback. Illustrated with monochrome…
'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ...made miserable and unsound'.
Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition.
In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of…
