The Ebony Tower

A collection of novellas - perfect examples of Fowles’s rich, dazzling, masterly style.

The Ebony Tower is a series of five novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist’s relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was further advanced by this collection, which echoed themes and preoccupations from his other books.

‘Pick up any of these stories and you won’t, as they say, be able to put it down’ Financial Times