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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK

Folio Society classic books – in pictures

Folio | Classics: Great Expectations
Cover design for Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, the winning book in our online poll

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Photograph: The Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: Pip shares a drink with a friend in a Victorian pub
One of Marcus Stone's original illustrations accompanying Dickens's classic novel, Great Expectations

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Illustration: Marcus Stone/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: A boy blows through a shell at dawn in Lord of the Flies
A scene of uneasy calm from William Golding's Lord of the Flies, wonderfully illustrated by Sam Weber

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Illustration: Sam Weber/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: A broken shell in Lord of the Flies
Sam Weber perfectly captures the menace lurking throughout Lord of the Flies with this arresting image

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Illustration: Sam Weber/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: Gregor Samsa lies in bed contemplating his metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa lies in bed contemplating his predicament in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, illustrated by Bill Bragg

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Illustration: Bill Bragg/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: A crowd gathers outside Gregor's home in Kafka's Metamorphosis
A crowd gathers outside Gregor's home in Kafka's Metamorphosis

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Illustration: Bill Bragg/Folio Society
Folio Classics: Name of the Rose
Neil Packer brings to life a surreal scene from Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose

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Illustration: Neil Packer/ The Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: Illustration featuring Dorian Gray and Lord Basil
Lord Henry Wotton observes Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's classic story of narcissism and desire, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Illustrated by Emna Chichester Clark

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Illustration: Emma Chichester Clark/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: A surreal scene from Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Anna Bhushan brings to life Salman Rushdie's dreamlike prose in this wonderful illustration from Midnight's Children

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Illustration: Anna Bhushan/Folio Society
Folio Society | Classics: An oil painting depicting a fight scene
Robert Hunt's oil paintings provide a fitting match for the brutal struggles of colonial America depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

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Illustration: Robert Hunt/Folio Society
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