Review
"* 'Brilliant - an artist of great imaginative power' - Sunday Times * 'A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again' - New Statesman * 'A brilliant success. It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling' - Financial Times * 'Compulsively readable' - Irish Times"
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Book Description
One of 15 limited edition Vintage Future Classics published to celebrate Vintage's 15th birthday. The 15 titles were voted for by reading groups all over the UK as being books that would still be read in 100 years time.
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Product Description
The story of a woman wronged, depicted against an unrelenting Victorian England. Set in Lyme Regis in 1867, it is shot through with authorial comment and insight to provide a critique of the Victorian novel.
From the Back Cover
Charles Smithson, a respectable scientist, is engaged to the charming Ernestina Freeman; but a chance encounter with Sarah Woodruff – the most ravishingly beautiful thing he had ever seen – changes everything. Sarah is a 'fallen' women, a social outcast; and, in the respectable middle-class society of Lyme Regis in 1867, Charles risks everything in pursuit of her.
John Fowles's compelling narrative, exploring the consequences of this relationship for all who are touched by it, has made 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' a modern classic.
John Fowles’ first novel, 'The Collector', was published in 1963 to immediate acclaim and his reputation grew with the appearance of each successive title. 'The Magus' (1966) was described by Anthony Burgess as “an astonishing achievement” while 'The French Lieutenant’s Woman' (1969) was considered by the 'New Statesman' “a splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art” and turned into a major Hollywood film.
John Fowles lives and writes in Lyme Regis. Dorset.
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About the Author
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. He now lives and writes in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
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