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John Fowles
Discover John Fowles’ compelling classic first novel ‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday Times Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and…
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Read John Fowles’s feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster…
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Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to…
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Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a…
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Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on…
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William Stephenson
William Stephenson’s 2003 critical study explores the hitherto overlooked role of ethnicity in John Fowles’s novels, and his idiosyncratic treatment of the past in The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) and…
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Bertha Fernandes
Globalization which has (quite ironically) caused the world to be referred to as the ‘global village’ has resulted in the opening up of borders between countries, between states within countries…
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James Acheson
In this clear and concise book, James Acheson traces the development of Fowles’ novels from The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, each concerned with the quest for…
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James Acheson (Christchurch)
This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles’ writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant’s Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles’…
Peter Conradi
John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive study of his work, originally published in 1982, Peter Conradi relates…
Simon Loveday
Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Chronology - John Fowles: The Life and Work - The Collector - The Magus - The French Lieutenant’s Woman - The Ebony Tower -…
The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued…
Lyme Bay, 1867. Charles Smithson has gone to visit his fiancee. Driven by his interest in paleontology, he goes on excursions into the woods in search of fossils. There he…
Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.
This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances…
The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable – the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar.
Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where an eccentric millionaire manipulates him with hallucinations, riddles, and psychological tests.
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Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus , the author set out his ideas on life in The Aristos…
A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild…
In his long literary career, John Fowles has managed the feats of welding stunning innovation to tradition, pushing the formal boundaries of literary fiction, and still capturing critical acclaim and…
In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent…
Csaba Zoltan Szabo
The present research paper may be an excellent guide for those readers who are interested in John Fowles’ outstanding narrative techniques and unique view of life. His well-known book The…
Mahinur Akşehir
The genre of Menippean satire is very problematic in terms of putting forward an encompassing definition. There has been numerous attempts to propose a final definition and none of these…
Margaret Reynolds,Jonathan Noakes
One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by John Fowles in three…
James R. Aubrey
John Fowles, best known as the author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, has also written numerous other works–fiction as well as nonfiction.
Pamela Cooper
Explores the complex power relationships in John Fowles’ fictions, particularly his handling of the pivotal subjects of art and sex. This title includes chapters on The Collector , The Magus…
Baris Mete
This work evaluates the ontological status of the author-characters in John Fowles’s Mantissa and Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton within the scope of certain poststructuralist and postmodern theories; and it also attempts…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Pierre Marivaux
From eighteenth-century France, John Fowles transports us to Regency England in this elegant adaptation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Marivaux’s greatest comedy.
Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles’s fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs…
Nigel Tattersfield
Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700. This title charts how small provincial…
Robert Fripp
Using prose and scientific fact, this book combines the spirit and sense of Genesis with current scientific thought on cosmic change and life’s evolution on our planet.
Mark Healy,John Fowles
Ever since he first saw her, Frederick Clegg has been obsessed with Miranda Grey. The repressed, introverted butterfly collector admires the beautiful, privileged art student from afar until he wins…
As lyrical and precise as Fowles’ novels, The Tree is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and also a rejection of the idea…
John Allen Fowle
Paper on the old Dorchester burying ground, read before the society, November 22nd, 1901 This book, Paper on the old Dorchester burying ground read before the society, November 22nd, 1901…
This book provides the technical background and a historical perspective of biotechnology. It examines scientific questions on the assessment of risk for the release of genetically engineered organisms into the…
Nicholas Urfe accepts a teaching post on a beautiful, remote Greek island, in order to escape an love affair gone sour. He meets the enigmatic Maurice Conchis, who introduces him…
