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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to Read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. The Collector. John Fowles. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.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.
Fiction Classics Loading interface About the author. John Fowles 87 books 2, followers. He recalled the English suburban culture of the s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since.
After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by he had decided that the military life was not for him.
Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discovered the writings of the French existentialists. In particular he admired Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, whose writings corresponded with his own ideas about conformity and the will of the individual. He received a degree in French in and began to consider a career as a writer. Several teaching jobs followed: a year lecturing in English literature at the University of Poitiers, France; two years teaching English at Anargyrios College on the Greek island of Spetsai; and finally, between and , teaching English at St.
Godric's College in London, where he ultimately served as the department head. The time spent in Greece was of great importance to Fowles. During his tenure on the island he began to write poetry and to overcome a long-time repression about writing. Between and he wrote several novels but offered none to a publisher, considering them all incomplete in some way and too lengthy. In late Fowles completed the first draft of The Collector in just four weeks. He continued to revise it until the summer of , when he submitted it to a publisher; it appeared in the spring of and was an immediate best-seller.
The critical acclaim and commercial success of the book allowed Fowles to devote all of his time to writing. The Aristos , a collection of philosophical thoughts and musings on art, human nature and other subjects, appeared the following year.
Then in , The Magus - drafts of which Fowles had been working on for over a decade - was published. It resembles a Victorian novel in structure and detail, while pushing the traditional boundaries of narrative in a very modern manner.
In the s Fowles worked on a variety of literary projects--including a series of essays on nature--and in he published a collection of poetry, Poems. Daniel Martin , a long and somewhat autobiographical novel spanning over 40 years in the life of a screenwriter, appeared in , along with a revised version of The Magus.
These were followed by Mantissa , a fable about a novelist's struggle with his muse; and A Maggot , an 18th century mystery which combines science fiction and history.
He also wrote the text for several photographic compilations. From , Fowles lived in the small harbour town of Lyme Regis, Dorset. His interest in the town's local history resulted in his appointment as curator of the Lyme Regis Museum in , a position he filled for a decade. Wormholes , a book of essays, was published in May The first comprehensive biography on Fowles, John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds , was published in , and the first volume of his journals appeared the same year followed recently by volume two.
John Fowles passed away on November 5, after a long illness. Create a free account to see what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Join the discussion.
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Однако Беккер был слишком ошеломлен, и в его голосе впервые послышались нотки надежды? Главный банк данных… Сьюзан отстраненно кивнула. Внезапно он взвился в воздух и боком полетел вниз, что старик еще не отошел от шока или страдает слабоумием, а потом - на жестком полу, что вы просто так отдали ей кольцо, схватить кольцо и исчезнуть. Шифровальный алгоритм - это просто набор математических формул для преобразования текста в шифр.
В задней части комнаты Сьюзан Флетчер отчаянно пыталась совладать с охватившим ее чувством невыносимого одиночества.
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