The Collector : Vintage Classics - John Fowles

The Collector

Vintage Classics

By: John Fowles

Paperback | 1 April 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.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 thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to be understanding but cannot banish her contempt for everything anti-life that the collector stands for.

About the Author

JOHN FOWLES was born in 1926. His books include THE COLLECTOR, THE ARISTOS, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE EBONY; TOWER, DANIEL MARTIN, MANTISSA, A MAGGOT, and WORMHOLES. He died in Lyme Regis in November 2005.
Industry Reviews
He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant * Independent *
A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones * Sunday Times *
Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power * Sunday Times *
No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this creepy locked-room horror story * Guardian *
There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller * New York Times *

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