The Epic of Gilgamesh - The Folio Society. Italian Food - The Folio Society. Italian Food In the early 1950s Elizabeth David set out for Italy, determined to show a rationing-weary British public that Italian cooking did not consist solely of spaghetti in tomato sauce.
She stayed a year, travelling from coast to coast and mountain to plain, in her search for true Italian food that was neither anglicised nor 'frenchified'. The result was a compendium of authentic Italian recipes, often rustic, always delicious, and while Elizabeth David is a stalwart friend of the home cook, top chefs also regard her book as seminal. In Italian Food, Elizabeth David created something more than a practical cookery book.
It is no wonder that Evelyn Waugh chose it as one of the two books that gave him the most pleasure. Italian Food was first published in 1954 and there were few ingredients available in Britain. 'The very best book about Italian food that has ever been published here' See more Elizabeth David titles: Dracula - The Folio Society. Dracula ‘One of the most powerful horror tales ever written’ When young solicitor’s clerk Jonathan Harker goes to the remote castle of Count Dracula to oversee a property transaction, he is ready to encounter some quaint beliefs and customs.
After all, the Count’s home is in the great Carpathian mountains in the heart of Transylvania, where ‘every known superstition in the world is gathered’. But nothing can prepare Harker for the horror of his sojourn with the Count, and he barely escapes with his life. Later that summer, a Russian schooner arrives at Whitby harbour, steered by the hand of a dead man and bearing a mysterious cargo – boxes of earth from Transylvania. Dracula presents a sweeping panorama of 19th-century Europe, from the wilds of Transylvania to the Yorkshire coast, via the streets of London. Our new edition includes a specially commissioned introduction by John Banville, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize and a master of the contemporary gothic novel. Phyllis A. Folk Tales of Britain - The Folio Society. Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives A Treasure-house of Folklore - Introduced by Philip Pullman ‘Every nation needs its own collection of folk tales, and this is the fullest and most authoritative we have.
To open it anywhere is to sink a shaft into the memory of a people and all that they know …’ With these words Philip Pullman introduces a new Folio Society edition of a pioneering publication. Katharine M. Briggs’s Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives is an unrivalled collection of stories, from local traditions and historical legends to shaggy dog stories and fairy tales. What a lovely book this is! Philip Pullman You will need flash to view, download Flash player here ‘A young lover in Scotland sent his goshawk with a letter tucked into its feathers to be carried to his lady in England.
Katharine M. History of the English Church and People - The Folio Society. History of the English Church and People ‘With God’s help, I, Bede … have assembled these facts about the history of the Church in Britain … so far as I have been able to ascertain them from ancient writings, from the tradition of our forebears, and from my own personal knowledge’ In 731, at the northumbrian foundation of Jarrow, a monk named Bede completed a masterpiece of historical scholarship, the sophistication of which would not be equalled for centuries.
Bede’s aim was to record the history of the Church in England. His achievement was far greater, for he created a complete history, not just of the Church but of the people of England, from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the 8th century. We owe most of our knowledge of this period to Bede’s work; it is without doubt the most valuable chronicle of Anglo-Saxon England in existence and the cornerstone of English history. The History of the Kings of Britain - The Folio Society. The History of the Kings of Britain ‘Brutus, beyond the setting of the sun, past the realms of Gaul, there lies an island in the sea, once occupied by giants.
Now it is empty and ready for your folk … for your descendants it will be a second Troy. A race of kings will be born there from your stock and the round circle of the whole earth will be subject to them’