Books published by publisher Folio Society

Rudyard Kipling is one of the greatest short-story writers in the English language, and it was the medium in which he wrote most personally and most profusely. The India of the Raj, into which Kipling was born in 1865, is vividly portrayed in all its many-splendoured moods, from the snobbery of Simla drawing rooms to the golden mosques and perfumed gardens of Lahore. But his writing went beyond these experiences of Empire to embrace the multiplicity of Kipling's interests and ideas, and to capture the extraordinary times through which he lived. Whatever his subject - trench warfare, murder on the barrack-square, futuristic modes of transportation, polo matches, early radio experiments - he wrote with verve, detail and energy, which lovers of his poetry and children's books will immediately recognise and embrace. From high adventure to doomed romance, ghostly encounters to military yarns, social comedy to flights of scientific fancy, here are more than 200 tales by a master storyteller, arranged chronologically in five volumes from Kipling's first published story, in 1884, to his final collection, Limits and Renewals, in 1932.

The Folio Society edition, 2006 at the bottom of the title page, a new hardcover in a new slipcase. By Charles Darwin. Introduction by Richard Keynes. From the copyright page: "The Origin of Species was first published in 1859. This Folio edition follows the text of the first edition, with some minor emendations, and with the inclusion of a glossary of scientific terms first published in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species in 1969."

"One does not sell [or soak with blood] the earth upon which the people walk." - Crazy Horse . . . The massacre by United States soldiers of encamped Sioux at Wounded Knee is the culminating event in a barbarous and shameful catalog of war, slaughter, planned genocide, death marches, concentration camps, and broken treaties that the US government visted upon the peoples who had resided on the American continent for 40,000 years before the first white man stepped ashore. To write this searing, visceral account, which concentrates on the eradication of the vast Western tribes in just thirty years, from the first displacement of Navahos and Apaches in California to the atrocities committed at Wounded Knee--author Dee Brown devoted a lifetime to studying the American Indians. Through memoirs, trial transcripts and other government records we hear the authentic voices of chiefs and braves (intelligent, articulate, sometimes angry, more often sad or puzzled) tell one aspect or another of war they fought and lost to save their land, their buffalo, their culture, their very existence. . . "Calculated to make the head pound, the heart ache, and the blood boil." - The London Times