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French Lieutenant's Woman
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John Fowles
Set in Victorian England, Fowles' novel revolves around three characters: Ernestina (the daughter of a wealthy industrialist), Charles (a prosperous amateur scientist), and Sarah. Although engaged to marry Ernestina, Charles becomes obsessed with Sarah, whose mysterious past and scandalous reputation as "the French Lieutenant's woman" make her a ...
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Collector
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John Fowles's celebrated novel is a romantic fantasy in which Francis Clegg, an obscure London clerk, contrives to win the affections of Miranda Grey, a young girl whom he has worshipped from afar for years. After he wins a fortune in a football pool, Francis buys a house in the country and has Miranda kidnapped and carried there. He keeps her ...
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The Magus
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Nick Urfe, a young British schoolteacher, travels to the Greek island of Phraxos for a vacation. There he manages to wander into a series of misadventures and confusions that bring the stability of his world into doubt. A careless flirtation with another tourist leads to a messy affair, and a chance introduction brings him under the influence of ...
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Daniel Martin
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Fowles relates the story of Daniel Martin, an English screenwriter living in Hollywood who is summoned back to England for the funeral of Anthony, an old college friend. Anthony's widow Jane is the sister of Daniel's ex-wife, and after the funeral the two reestablish their old friendship and take a vacation through Egypt together. In Egypt Jane ...
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Maggot
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Fowles's seventh novel is a study of Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers.
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Ebony Tower
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A novella, a translation, and three short stories, mostly concerned with the lives of artists and the relation between art and life. In the title novella, based on a Celtic tale by Marie de France, two young Englishmen--an artist and a critic--visit an elderly expatriate painter in Italy and speculate on trends in modern painting.
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Mantissa
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Fowles' comic fantasy describes a novelist named Miles Green who wakes up in a hospital with no memory of his past and no idea what has befallen him. A woman claiming to be his wife visits him, but he finds himself more attracted to the attending physician. Eventually the doctor is transformed into one of the Greek muses.
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The Aristos
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An intellectual autobiography, in which Fowles organizes his beliefs around Heraclitus' concept of 'aristos'--the supreme perfection, not always obtainable in reality, of each object or experience. Particular attention is paid to theories of art and notions of what constitutes good writing.
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Tree
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A book of nature photography, mainly photographs of trees, by Frank Horvat. Fowles provides a text which describes his experiences and understanding of country life, both in England and in Europe.
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Wormholes
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This collection of 30 thought-provoking essays from four decades, many of them on literature or the natural world, was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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The Magus: A Revised Version
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Nick Urfe, a young British schoolteacher, travels to the Greek island of Phraxos for a vacation. There he manages to wander into a series of misadventures and confusions that bring the stability of his world into doubt. A careless flirtation with another tourist leads to a messy affair, and a chance introduction brings him under the influence of ...
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Ourika: An English Translation
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Claire de Duras, John Fowles (Translator), Claire de Durfort Duras
John Fowles translated this 19th-century book, which provided the seed for his own novel, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Based on a true story, Ourika's novel relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by and aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.
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Islands
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The Enigma of Stonehenge
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The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas
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Bk of Ebenezer Le Page
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G. B. Edwards's now-classic novel about a man of the Channel Islands: the bleak seacoast, the omnipresent family feuds, and the influences of the past that make up his life. Edwards was a fanatically private person; in his youth he had traveled extensively and was a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, and other well-known figures, but ...
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Shipwreck
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The Journals: 1949-1965
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John Fowles, Charles Drazin (Editor)
Kept during the years 1949 to 1965, when John Fowles was first learning and then mastering the craft of writing fiction, these journals illuminate the process. Taking him from his 20s to his 40s, the entries here record his passion for all things French, his reading of Kafka and Camus, his love of nature, his travels, and--throughout his eventful ...
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A Short History of Lyme Regis
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John Fowles writes the story of the English town of Lyme Regis, the setting for his novel THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN.
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Ourika: The Original French Text
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Claire de Duras, John Fowles (Translator), Joan E Dejean (Editor)
John Fowles translated this 19th-century book, which provided the seed for his own novel, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Based on a true story, Ourika's novel relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by and aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.
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Poems
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John Fowles
Poetry by the acclaimed fiction writer John Fowles, author of THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN.
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Cinderella
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John Fowles
In her haste to flee the place before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.
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The Undercliff: A Naturalist's Sketchbook of the Devon to Dorset Coast
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Let There Be Life: A Scientific and Poetic Retelling of the Genesis Creation Story
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Robert Fripp, John Fowles (Foreword by)
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.
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The Journals: Volume Two: 1966-1990
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John Fowles, Charles Drazin (Editor)
The second and concluding volume of John Fowles's eloquent, revelatory journals, the first of which was widely greeted as a literary landmark ("The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing--with a dogged passion, and almost inadvertently--what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works" --"Literary Review" ...
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