Books published by publisher The Folio Society

In A PASSAGE TO INDIA, E. M. Forster examines the British upper class outside their familiar environment. Miss Quested, a young Englishwoman traveling in India for the first time, insists that she has been sexually assaulted by Aziz, a young Indian doctor, while visiting the Marabar Caves. When he protests his innocence, the Indian community is outraged and tumultuously defends him. In the resulting story, Forster writes discerningly and sympathetically about the clashes between the British Raj and its colonial subjects.

First published in 1974, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY is very probably John le Carre's masterpiece. Like Grahame Greene, le Carre transcends the spy genre, writing novels that rank among the most critically acclaimed fiction of the late 20th Century. By no means a one-dimenional thriller, TINKER is a subtle, gripping novel that derives suspense from its moral and psychological complexity. Its spies are distinct individuals caught in a web of international Cold-War intrigue--from the protagonist Smiley, recalling his days as an agent "living with terror in his mouth, naked to every stranger's glance," to every spy, friend and enemy, whom Smiley encounters: all human casualties of a dangerous profession. This Folio Society edition of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY is bound in buckram and blocked with a design by illustrator Tim Laing, whose atmospheric interior drawings brilliantly portray le Carre's shadowy world.