Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Introduction by Irvine Welsh, Illustrated by Ben Jones (London: The Folio Society, 2014) ("'But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.' . . . 'we shall have a few people in to see you tomorrow. I think you can be used, poor boy. I think you can help dislodge this overbearing Government. To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.'" Id. at 164.).
Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male, Introduction by John Banville, Illustrations by David Rooney (London: The Folio Society, 2013).
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (London: The Folio Society, 2014).
Freya Stark, The Southern Gate: A Journey in the Hadhramaut, Introduction by Sara Wheeler (London: The Folio Society, 2014) ("'You were right,' he said. 'The Sultan is the best man in this neighborhood. He is a friend of ours. And as for the Governor, poor man--one does not listen to him: he knows no History.'" Id. at 220. "But there are two impulses stronger than desire, deeper than love of man or woman, and independent of it--the human hunger for truth and liberty. For these two, greater sacrifices are made than for any love of person; against them nothing can prevail, since love and life itself have proved themselves light in the balance; and the creature man is ever ready to refute the Matter-of-Fact Realist and his statistics by sacrificing all he has for some abstract idea of wisdom or freedom, unprofitable in every mercenary scale." "What with popular lectures, compulsory instruction and the belief that one is educated if one can read and write, we sometimes forget that this hunger of our soul exists: but in the Wadi 'And it is difficult to satisfy, and therefore more easily recognized for what it is, and the two Sayyids were not surprised to find that I should travel from Europe to the Hadhramaut in pursuit of their ancient learning. . . . 'Here you must come for months,' they sad, 'to study.'" Id. at 231-232.).
Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands, Introduction by Val McDermid, Illlustrated by Mark Smith (London: The Folio Society, 2014).
