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John Fowles

Product Description: John Fowles (1926-2005) has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics. This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new critical light on all of Fowles's writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of his works...read more

By James Acheson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230348059 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: John Fowles (1926-2005) has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics.

9780312213879 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1998, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: John Fowles has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics.

Paperback:

9780230348066 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 2013, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: John Fowles (1926-2005) has the distinction of being both a best-selling novelist and one whose work has earned the respect of academic critics.

9780333516706 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, July 15, 1998, cover price $34.60 | About this edition: Traces the development of Fowles' novels which examines the quest for self-knowledge, details the sexual element of his early novels, and charts Fowles' interest in French existentialism and his eventual disillusionment and abandonment of this philosophy.

The Journals, 1966-1990

The second in a multi-volume series of journals and diary excerpts picks up in 1966, after the author had achieved international acclaim for The Collector and The Magus, as he examines the rewards and struggles of his literary career, his ambivalent attitude toward his growing fame, his disenchantment with a materialistic society, and marital tensions.

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9781400044337 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 10, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Journal and diary excerpts range from the author's student days at Oxford in the late 1940s and chronicle such experiences as teaching on the Greek island of Spetsai and his love affair with the married woman who would become his wife.

The Journals of John Fowles: The Journals

Charts the rewards and struggles of the author's literary career, but at the same time, reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind the outward success. This title contains an eloquent expression of the profound attachment to the natural world, but also marks a writer's quest for wisdom and self-understanding.

By Charles Drazin (editor)

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9780224069120 | Gardners Books, January 19, 2006, cover price $41.65 | About this edition: Charts the rewards and struggles of the author's literary career, but at the same time, reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind the outward success.

French Lieutenant's Woman

Assuming and mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, this book is a recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age.

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9781568492803, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1994), cover price $32.95

9781569562338, titled "French Lieutenant's Woman" | Braille edition (William a Thomas Braille, December 1, 1990), cover price $66.40

9780316290999, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1969, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The stern society of Victorian England is viewed from the perspective of a modern author

Paperback:

9780099497073, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Limited edition (Gardners Books, September 1, 2005), cover price $15.55 | About this edition: Assuming and mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, this book is a recreation of Victorian England.

9780316291163, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Back Bay Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Charles Smithson, a conventional young scientist, breaks his proper Victorian engagement upon becoming involved with the devastating Sarah Woodruff, whom the townspeople have linked with scandal and forbidden pleasures

9780451163752, titled "French Lieutenant's Woman" | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Charles Smithson, a conventional young scientist, breaks his proper Victorian engagement upon becoming involved with devastating Sarah Woodruff, whom the townspeople have linked with scandal and forbidden pleasures

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754054658, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2002), cover price $57.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786299461, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | G K Hall Audio Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $89.95

9780001388451, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Abridged edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 10, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Charles Smithson's infatuation with the unusual Sarah Woodruff, whilst being engaged to a young lady of a good family and a considerable dowry.

9780945353201, titled "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | Audio Partners, May 1, 1988, cover price $15.95

Prebinding:

9780613172424, titled "French Lieutenant's Woman" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Charles Smithson, a conventional young scientist, breaks his proper Victorian engagement upon becoming involved with the devastating Sarah Woodruff, whom the townspeople have linked with scandal and forbidden pleasures

The Journals: 1949-1965

Journal and diary excerpts range from the author's student days at Oxford in the late 1940s and chronicle such experiences as teaching on the Greek island of Spetsai and his love affair with the married woman who would become his wife.

By Charles Drazin (editor) and John Fowles

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9781400044313 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 3, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Journal and diary excerpts range from the author's student days at Oxford in the late 1940s and chronicle such experiences as teaching on the Greek island of Spetsai and his love affair with the married woman who would become his wife.

Paperback:

9780810125148, titled "The Journals, 1949-1965" | Northwestern Univ Pr, January 12, 2009, cover price $24.95

John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds

This biography of John Fowles chronicles his pre-war childhood in Leigh-on-Sea and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, his apprentice years in Europe and London and, from a lifetime of intimate correspondence, narrates Fowles's 37-year love affair with his wife Elizabeth, the woman who inspired his most memorable female characters.

By Eileen Warburton

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9780224059510 | Gardners Books, April 15, 2004, cover price $41.65 | About this edition: This biography of John Fowles chronicles his pre-war childhood in Leigh-on-Sea and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, his apprentice years in Europe and London and, from a lifetime of intimate correspondence, narrates Fowles's 37-year love affair with his wife Elizabeth, the woman who inspired his most memorable female characters.

9780670032839 | Viking Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Drawing on his journal, personal letters, and interviews, a biography of celebrated novelist John Fowles examines his rise to success as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, his literary influence, and his works.

Collector

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables him 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.

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9781850890294, titled "The Collector" | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, March 1, 1986), cover price $15.50

9780316290968, titled "The Collector" | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1963, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When Frederick Clegg, clerk and butterfly collector, wins a football pool fortune he buys a country home in which to house a new specimen

Paperback:

9780099470472, titled "The Collector" | New edition (Vintage Uk, February 5, 2004), cover price $14.40 | About this edition: Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.

9780316290234, titled "The Collector" | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 4, 1997), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A butterful collector buys a country home where he keeps captive his new specimen--a beautiful young art student

9780440313359 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, November 1, 1991), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When Frederick Clegg, clerk and butterfly collector, wins a football pool fortune he buys a country home in which to house a new specimen

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745127705, titled "The Collector" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $74.95 | About this edition: When Frederick Clegg, clerk and butterfly collector, wins a football pool fortune he buys a country home in which to house a new specimen.

Reinforced:

9780606252812 | Demco Media, December 1, 1997, cover price $22.67 | About this edition: A butterful collector buys a country home where he keeps captive his new specimen--a beautiful young art student

John Fowles: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature

Product Description: In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles.Â It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with John Fowles, relating specifically to the texts under discussion...read more

By Jonathan Noakes (editor) and Margaret Reynolds (editor)

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9780099460886 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles.

The Magus

Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where an eccentric millionaire manipulates him with hallucinations, riddles, and psychological tests

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780679602835 | Modern Library, June 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where an eccentric millionaire manipulates him with hallucinations, riddles, and psychological tests

9780316290975 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1966, cover price $10.95

Paperback:

9780316296199 | Revised edition (Back Bay Books, January 4, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: For the first time in trade paperback, this 1963 novel tells the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where an eccentric millionaire manipulates him with hallucinations, riddles, and psychological tests.

9780440351627 | Rev rei edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1985), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Conchis, a mystical, powerful recluse, draws Nicholas Urfe, a young English teacher, and a beautiful girl into a deadly web of violence, sensuality, and eroticism as they become pawns in The Godgame, a labyrinth of illusion controlled by The Magus

CD/Spoken Word:

9781522633822 | Mp3 una edition (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, May 24, 2016), cover price $14.99

Prebinding:

9780613173629 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.90 | About this edition: Conchis, a mystical, powerful recluse, draws Nicholas Urfe, a young English teacher, and a beautiful girl into a deadly web of violence, sensuality, and eroticism as they become pawns in The Godgame, a labyrinth of illusion controlled by The Magus

Conversations With John Fowles

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By John Fowles and Dianne L. Vipond (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781578061907 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 1999, cover price $50.00

John Fowles and Nature: Fourteen Perspectives on Landscape

John Fowles and Nature is a collection of fourteen essays about the representation of nature in fiction and nonfictionwriting by Fowles. Most focus on relationships between Fowlesâs novels and his essays about nature, but some look at his lesser-known book about islands, one of the worlds of his poetry. An afterword by John Fowles offers his own reflections on the symposium from which this collection emerged. Illustrated.

By James R. Aubrey

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Hardcover:

9781611471731 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $80.00

9780838637968 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: John Fowles and Nature is a collection of fourteen essays about the representation of nature in fiction and nonfictionwriting by Fowles.

Ebony Tower

Five stories, which reflect or are characteristic of earlier themes and settings in Fowles' work, explore the affinities between human experience and fantasy (view table of contents)

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780316290937, titled "The Ebony Tower" | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1974, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Five stories, which reflect or are characteristic of earlier themes and settings in Fowles' work, explore the affinities between human experience and fantasy

Paperback:

9780316287456, titled "The Ebony Tower" | Back Bay Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.99

9780452267107, titled "The Ebony Tower" | Reissue edition (Plume, December 1, 1991), cover price $12.95

9780451156914 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1978), cover price $4.50 | also contains Media and Cultural Theory Course Book

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856952330, titled "The Ebony Tower" | Isis Audio, July 1, 1996, cover price $69.95

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

A collection of nonfiction writing by the author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman includes essays, literary criticism, commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs, and musings on a wide variety of subjects. Reprint.

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780805058673 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Contains essays and autobiographical pieces written from 1963 to the present, treating such subjects as the art of fiction and its relationship to life

9780316290906 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Divided into four categories--Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and the Nature of Nature--these thirty essays present a mosaic of the author's interests and concerns

Paperback:

9780805061727 | Reprint edition (Owl Books, May 1, 1999), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of nonfiction writing by the author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman includes essays, literary criticism, commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs, and musings on a wide variety of subjects.

Wormholes

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780805058932 | Limited edition (Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1998), cover price $150.00

A Maggot

A modern narrator supplements the views of a group of eighteenth-century travelers as they make an inquiry into the mysterious death by hanging of one traveler and the disappearance--vanished into thin air--of another

By John Fowles

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9780316289948 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A modern narrator supplements the views of a group of eighteenth-century travelers as they make an inquiry into the mysterious death by hanging of one traveler and the disappearance--vanished into thin air--of another

Paperback:

9780316290494 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1998, cover price $14.00

9780452270947 | Reprint edition (Plume, June 1, 1993), cover price $14.95

9780451144768 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1986), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: A modern narrator supplements the views of a group of eighteenth-century travelers as they make an inquiry into the mysterious death by hanging of one traveler and the disappearance--into thin air--of another

Mantissa

A deeply serious novelist is subjected to ultimately tragic sufferings by his shamelessly uncooperative muse, who is given to distractions, sulks, and unexpected lapses in memory and who demands equal play for equal work

By John Fowles

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9780316289825 | Limited edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1982), cover price $75.00

9780316289801 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1982, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A deeply serious novelist is subjected to ultimately tragic sufferings by his shamelessly uncooperative muse, who is given to distractions, sulks, and unexpected lapses in memory and who demands equal play for equal work

Paperback:

9780316290272 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A deeply serious novelist is subjected to ultimately tragic sufferings by his shamelessly uncooperative muse, who is given to distractions, sulks, and unexpected lapses in memory and who demands equal play for equal work

9780452254299 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, April 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A deeply serious novelist is subjected to ultimately tragic sufferings by his shamelessly uncooperative muse, who is given to distractions, sulks, and unexpected lapses in memory and who demands equal play for equal work

Daniel Martin

Returning to England at the request of Anthony Mallory, an old friend dying of cancer, playwright Daniel Martin is reunited with his ex-wife and her sister and, in company with them, attempts to rectify his past and shape his future

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780316289597 | Bookthrift Co, August 1, 1979, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Returning to England at the request of Anthony Mallory, an old friend dying of cancer, playwright Daniel Martin is reunited with his ex-wife and her sister and, in company with them, attempts to rectify his past and shape his future

Paperback:

9780316290395 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Returning to England at the request of Anthony Mallory, an old friend dying of cancer, playwright Daniel Martin is reunited with his ex-wife and her sister and, in company with them, attempts to rectify his past and shape his future

9780451167613 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1978), cover price $5.95

Understanding John Fowles

Product Description: Book by Foster, Thomas C.

By Thomas C. Foster

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Hardcover:

9781570030031 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Foster, Thomas C.

Lust

In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.

By Michael Hulse (trans) and Elfriede Jelinek

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9781852421830 | Serpents Tail, April 1, 1993, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.

Memories With Trees

By David A. Scrase (trans) and Ilse Tielsch

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Paperback:

9780929497655 | Ariadne Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $12.50

John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism

By Mahmoud Salami

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Hardcover:

9780838634462 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $42.50

Something and Nothingness: The Fiction of John Updike & John Fowles

Product Description: John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the sounds of the earth) is an overlooked key to examining and comparing the works of John Fowles and John Updike...read more

By John Neary

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9780809317424 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the sounds of the earth) is an overlooked key to examining and comparing the works of John Fowles and John Updike.

Point of View in Fiction and Film: Focus on John Fowles

Product Description: A comparison between a novel and its film adaptation often fails to consider the essential characteristics of the two separate media. Among cinematic adaptations which have drawn critical attention are the films produced from John Fowles' novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman; these novels, in fact, are particularly challenging for filmmakers not only because of their complex structures and layers of meanings but also because of the points of view which Fowles chose for each...read more

By Charles Garard

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Hardcover:

9780820415376 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A comparison between a novel and its film adaptation often fails to consider the essential characteristics of the two separate media.

John Fowles: A Reference Companion

Product Description: John Fowles, best known as the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, has also written numerous other works--fiction as well as nonfiction. This unique reference book by James R. Aubrey lists all of Fowles's writings for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James R. Aubrey

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Hardcover:

9780313263996 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 30, 1991, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: John Fowles, best known as the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, has also written numerous other works--fiction as well as nonfiction.

Cyme Regis Camera

Old photographs depict the quaint corners and local characters of the English seaport and resort town, and trace its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

By John Fowles

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Hardcover:

9780316291316 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Old photographs depict the quaint corners and local characters of the English seaport and resort town, and trace its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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