The French Lieutenant's Woman

Author: John Fowles

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780099478331
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : 0.336
  • : December 1995
  • : 199mm X 132mm X 27mm
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  • : Paperback
  • : RI
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  • : en
  • : very good
  • : 445
  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780099478331
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Description

"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom."

Promotion info

'A remarkable performance-As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer 20040624

Author description

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. John Fowles died in 2005.