Fowles, John 1926-2005

The French lieutenant's woman by John Fowles ( Book )
102 editions published between 1969 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 4,877 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
While in Lyme Regis to visit his fiancee, Ernestina Freeman, Charles Smithson, a 32-year-old paleontologist, becomes fascinated by the mysterious Sarah Woodruff. A fallen woman said to have been jilted by a French officer, Sarah is a pariah to the well-bred society that Charles and Ernestina are a part of. While searching for fossils in a wooded coastal area, Charles encounters Sarah alone, and his curiosity and pity for her soon evolve into other emotions. It is not clear who seduces whom, but when another opportunity presents itself, Charles embraces Sarah passionately. Shortly thereafter, Sarah disappears, having been dismissed from domestic employment by the tyrannical do-gooder Mrs. Poultenay. Charles finds her in a room in Exeter, where he declares and demonstrates his love. Inspired by his image of Sarah as a valiant rebel against Victorian conventions, Charles rejects the constricting, respectable life Ernestina represents for him. He breaks off their engagement and is harassed with legal action for breach of contract. Meanwhile, Sarah vanishes again, and Charles spends 20 months scouring the world for her, finally tracing her to the lodgings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in London

The magus : a revised version by John Fowles ( Book )
210 editions published between 1960 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 4,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life

The collector by John Fowles ( Book )
290 editions published between 1960 and 2014 in 20 languages and held by 3,962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A butterfly collector wins a lottery and, thus, acquires a remote cottage where he imprisons a young woman

Daniel Martin by John Fowles ( Book )
103 editions published between 1977 and 2014 in 12 languages and held by 3,263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

A maggot by John Fowles ( Book )
102 editions published between 1985 and 2014 in 14 languages and held by 2,992 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of the eighteenth century in which mysterious events surround a journey undertaken by five unrelated but interconnected individuals

The ebony tower by John Fowles ( Book )
112 editions published between 1971 and 2014 in 15 languages and held by 2,899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Ebony Tower, comprising a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, echoes themes from John Fowles's internationally celebrated novels as it probes the fitful relations between love and hate, pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality

Mantissa by John Fowles ( Book )
96 editions published between 1982 and 2014 in 14 languages and held by 2,070 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Wormholes : essays and occasional writings by John Fowles ( Book )
18 editions published between 1998 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Divided into four sections--Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and Nature and the Nature of Nature--"Wormholes" contains 30 pieces, dating from 1963 to the present, which reflect on Fowles' views on the art of fiction and on the relationship of literature to life

The enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles ( Book )
11 editions published between 1980 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,011 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today

Shipwreck by John Fowles ( Book )
13 editions published between 1974 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide