A Maggot

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. Klappentext This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre. Zusammenfassung This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.

Product details

• Authors: John Fowles, Fowles John
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780099480419
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948041-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Historical adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750