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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK

Folio Society books for men – in pictures

Folio | Classics: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Cover design for Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the winning title in the vote to find Guardian readers' favourite Folio Society book for men

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Folio Society: men: A scene from Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Ford Prefect and his unwilling companion Arthur Dent make one of their many hilarious escapes in Adams' brilliant The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Illustration: Jonathan Burton/Folio Society
Folio Society: men: A scene from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Jonathan Burton's illustrations bring to life the bizarre and wonderful universe depicted in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Illustration: Jonathan Burton/Folio Society
Folio Society: men: Arthur Dent of Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Arthur Dent keeps up his state of disbelief in another inventive scene from Adams's masterpiece

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Illustration: Jonathan Burton/Folio Society
Folio Society: men: Marvin the paranoid android of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Two more unforgettable characters from the imagination of Adams: Marvin the paranoid android, and the pan-galactic layabout Zaphod Beeblebrox

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Folio Society: men: A giraffe in Darwin's The Origin of the Species
One of the fantastic colour plates accompanying Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species

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Folio Society: men: Mersault considers his fate in Camus' The Outsider
Matthew Richardson's dadaist collages capture the tone of the absurd and the existential unease portrayed in Albert Camus's The Outsider

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Illustration: Matthew Richardson/Folio Society
Folio Society | Men: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tim Laing perfectly renders John le Carré's London in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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Illustration: Tim Laing/The Folio Society
Folio Society | Men: Master and Commander
Period art complements the lost age of seafaring adventures chronicled in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander

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Folio Society | Men: The Great Game
Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game catalogues Britain and Russia's wrestle for the resources of central Asia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a game he argues "never really ended"

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