First Folio: A Little Book of Folio Forewords (The Folio Society)

xii, 132 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Tim Parks on The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli; Richard Holmes on Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson, by R.L. Stevenson; Philip Pullman on The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton; Roy Foster on Collected Poems, by W.B. Yeats; Iain Sinclair on The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells; Helen Dunmore on Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy; Colm Toibin on The Golden Bowl, by Henry James; A.S. Byatt on The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang; Frances Wilson on Adventures of Casanova, by Giacomo Casanova; Peter Ackroyd on Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens; William Trevor on A Dance to the the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell; Fergal Keane on Woodbrook, by David Thomson; John Sutherland on Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Jonathan Coe on The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding; Julian Barnes on The Good Solider, by Ford Maddox Ford; Biography.