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Daniel Martin by John Fowles
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Set internationally and spanning three decades, "Daniel Martin" is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travel ...Show more
Mantissa by John Fowles
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Category: Classics
Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-center is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even shapelier Nurse ...Show more
The Aristos by John Fowles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 posited of constant and chaotic flux ...Show more
The Collector by John Fowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he th ...Show more
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"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 by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. John Fowles reputation as a master storyteller was furth ...Show more
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
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Category: Classics
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, ...Show more
The Journals: Volume 2 by John Fowles (ed Charles Drazin)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The first volume of John Fowles's "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 Regis. This final volume charts the rewards and struggles of his c ...Show more
The Magus by John Fowles
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration ...Show more
Tree,the by John Fowles
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics
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 side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive.
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