Contemporary English novels, as a rule, are modest things—modest in their themes, their manner, their physical dimensions. If many an American, Continental, or Latin American novelist attempts, in ...

British author John Fowles, a loner and middle-class rebel who challenged domesticity, Victorian ideals and time itself in such novels as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “The Collector” died Nov.

THE COLLECTOR by John Fowles. 305 pages. Little, Brown. $4.95. In today’s literature, the devil cannot be found. He is everywhere and he is nowhere; for there are few modern evils that have not. been ...

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"Perhaps it is that I am hunting the woman archetype," the novelist John Fowles wrote in his diary in 1954, several years before he began work on The Collector, the book that brought him worldwide ...

British author John Fowles, a loner and middle-class rebel who questioned marriage, domesticity and the very bonds of society in such novels as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “The Collector” has ...

THE MAGUS by John Fowles. 582 pages. Little, Brown. $7.95. The art of John Fowles is arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a ...

John Fowles, 79, the best-selling author of such erotic and enigmatic novels as "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman," died Nov. 5 at his home in Lyme Regis, on England's southwest coast ...

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John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul ...