New in Fiction - Charles Dickens Classics

How do you review anything arts related that is firmly fixed and established in the public psyche? There's no detailing that needs withholding, there's nothing deep within or broadly over viewed that academic study or generations of people haven't already explored, acknowledged and appreciated.

Yet critics (when subjects appears in new transitions) are reviewing classic works all the time: a new adaptation for film, stage or TV for example; a new song version perhaps, or when acknowledging something that has been awarded a recent accreditation. 

Illustration © Hablot Knight Browne from The Folio Society edition of A Tale of Two Cities

   

The Charles Dickens collection by The Folio Society are reproductions of the 1937 Nonesuch texts. They include illustrations. A Tale of Two Cities for example, features original illustrations by artist and illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (1815 – 1882) known by the pen name, Phiz (see above).

Three available, NEW are A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist with introductions by novelists Hilary Mantel and Peter Ackroyd respectively, and they join Great Expectations to form the  collection as at spring 2018. Each title is a lotta book! The pages are super quality and the text is Arno and not too small. The bindings are nineteenth century pattern designs, in heritage colours. Illustrations are black and white. Size 9 ½ x 6 ¼ inches in a cloth slipcase.


Any of the above will make wonderful keepsakes or gifts and I'm going to stick my neck out with a suggestion for Father's Day and stress that Steppenwolf - a sci-fi storybook classic by Herman Hesse (1877-1962) is another new edition by The Folio Society and presented just as uniquely.

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse is a new title in our Summer Collection, and today's #foliofriday. The only illustrated edition of Steppenwolf in print, our edition features compelling artwork by @mrdanhillier. Hillier also worked on a special insert, bound within the book, of the iconic pamphlet that ultimately leads Harry on his hallucinatory journey. It is printed on a specially-chosen rough textured paper to set it apart from the rest of the book. This edition also features beautiful spot-varnished endpapers. View this edition: www.foliosociety.com/book/TPP/steppenwolf #foliosociety #steppenwolf #hermannhesse #danhillier #illustratedbook #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #bookaddict #beautifulbooks #slipcase #hardcover #hardback #endpapers #bookwithinabook

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