Con la precisión y el dominio del lenguaje que caracterizan su narrativa, Fowles nos vuelve a sumergir en un mundo poblado de personajes propios de lo mejor de la mitología clásica. Un joven crítico de arte se replantea su conv...
Frederick Clegg es un hombre solitario y anodino que colecciona mariposas. Miranda Grey es una radiante e inteligente niña bien que estudia arte en Londres. Frederick, que admira a Miranda pero es incapaz de abordarla con normalidad, la secuestra...
Publicada por primera vez en 1979, la presente obra, es una de las pocas obras en las que el novelista británico exploró el género ensayístico, supone una reflexión enormemente provocativa sobre la conexión entre...
Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butt...
John Fowlesâs classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. Frederick Clegg appears to be an ordinary, slightly shabby clerk. Winning a fortune in the lottery he buys a remote...
John Fowles (1926â2005) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent English novelists of the twentieth centuryâhis books have sold millions of copies worldwide, been turned into beloved films, and been popularly voted...
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 disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian...
Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent...
Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, and an obsession starts to form. So when Fred wins some money he decides to use the money to compensate for...
'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig.. Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's eye' Sunday Times
In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist John Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent in our traditional urge to categorise to tame and ultimately to possess the...
A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace.