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The 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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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own ...
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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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From the author of THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, a novel first published by Jonathan Cape in 1977. Set in various international locations over the course of three decades, an account of an Englishman's attempt to see himself and his time in the mirrors of the past.
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Islands
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Ebony Tower
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John Fowles
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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Maggot
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John Fowles
"A Maggot" is not a historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery - a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds - which led through beguiling paths to a ...
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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: Essays and Occasional Writings
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John Fowles
A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces.
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The Aristos
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John Fowles
Two years after "The Collector" had brought him international recognition and a year before he published "The Magus", John Fowles set out his ideas on life in "The Aristos". The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he saw in constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was Aristos. Fowles argued ...
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Fre-Ourika
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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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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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The Undercliff: A Naturalist's Sketchbook of the Devon to Dorset Coast
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Elaine Franks, John Fowles (Foreword by)
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Bk of Ebenezer Le Page
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G B Edwards, John Fowles (Designer)
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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The Enigma of Stonehenge
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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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Mantissa
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Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. When he is examined by a specialist, he is told that the memory nerve centre is associated with the one controlling sexual activity, and that the cure is sex. By the author of "The Collector".
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The Journals, Volume 1
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John Fowles
A major literary landmark: the first volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel The Collector. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep ...
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Shipwreck
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A Short History of Lyme Regis
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John Fowles
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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Journals, Vol. II
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A major literary landmark, this is the second volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time. The first volume of John Fowles' "Journals" ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of "The Collector" and "The Magus", and leaving London behind to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme ...
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The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas
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Lyme Regis Camera
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John Fowles
A collection of photographs of the seaside town where the author set his novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman", and where he has lived since 1965. Deeply involved in the history of the locale, he charts the life of the town and its changing inhabitants.
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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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Thomas Hardy's England
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John Fowles, Jo Draper
Fowles writes about the Wessex world of Thomas Hardy.
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