"1963. Fowles' first novel. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He capture an art student, Miranda and keeps her in the cellar of a Sussex house."
"1964. Two years after 'The Collector' and a year before 'The Magus', the author set out his ideas on life. His chief inspiration was the philosopher Heraclitus."
"1985. Not a historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in the archaic sense of the word) and took shape as a mystery with startling vision at its centre."
"Chronicles Fowles' pre-war childhood in Leigh-on-Sea and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education and his apprentice years in Europe and London."
