John Fowles Libros

En la Inglaterra de 1867, el joven Charles Smithson conoce a Sara Woosroff, a la que llaman «la mujer del teniente francés». Entre ambos nace un amor apasionado que chocará con la rígida moral victoriana. Jugando ingeniosamente con las convenciones de la novela decimonónica, el autor construye un brillante libro que relata una pasión, recrea minuciosamente el período victoriano y propone una aguda reflexión sobre el sentido último de la literatura.

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time.

A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces

1984 192 S. (23x23 cm) Pappband mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe London : Guild Publishing

On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptionsof a master trickster. Shimmering surreal threads weave ever tighter as reality and illusion intertwine in a bizarre psychological game. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of the complexities of the human mind. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, THE MAGUS is a cerebral feast.

John Fowles (1926–2005) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent and most successful English novelists of the 20th century. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide, have been adapted for beloved films, and have been popularly voted among the 100 Greatest Novels of the Century. To a smaller but no less passionate audience, Fowles is also known as the author of The Tree—one of the most affecting and memorable arguments for the connection between the natural world and human creativity ever written. Fowles recounts his childhood in suburban and rural England, during which he rebelled against his Edwardian father’s obsession with the fruitfulness and “quantifiable yield” of well-pruned trees, and instead came to prize the messy, purposeless beauty of nature left to its wildest. The Tree is a powerful vindication of the joy of getting lost, the merits of having no plan, and the wisdom of following one’s nose wherever it might lead—in life as much as in art. Inspiring and life-changing, The Tree reaffirms our connection to nature and reminds us of the artistic life that is in all of us.

New Writing 9 brings together some of the most formidable British talent, placing new names alongside more established ones, and offers contributions ranging from poetry to essays, from short stories to previews of novels in progress. Distinctive, innovative and entertaining, it is essential reading for all those interested in British writing today. This volume features new writing from Simon Armitage, Louis de Bernières, John Burnside, Anita Desai, Neil Ferguson, Duncan McLean, Ruth Padel, Tim Parks; Rose Tremain, Alan Warner; and many others.

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he saw in constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was Aristos. unfree world. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism and socialism.