The Collector

Informationen zum Autor John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with The Collector , his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works: The Aristos , The Magus , The French Lieutenant's Woman , The Ebony Tower , Daniel Martin , Mantissa , and A Maggot . John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in 2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the first in 2003, the second in 2006. Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta ’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review. Klappentext John Fowles was born in England in 1926 and educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. John Fowles won international recognition with his first published title, The Collector (1963). He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power and this reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works. John Fowles died in 2005. Zusammenfassung Discover John Fowles’ compelling classic first novel‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday TimesWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.

Product details

• Authors: John Fowles, Fowles John
• Assisted by: Evie Wyld (Introduction), Wyld Evie (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2004
• EAN: 9780099470472
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947047-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sussex, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Horror, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Classic fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary