The Collector

Author: John Fowles
Homepage 9780099470472

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  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : March 2004
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Description

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to be understanding but cannot banish her contempt for everything anti-life that the collector stands for.

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'Brilliant-an artist of great imaginative power' Sunday Times 20031030

Reviews

He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant Independent A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones Sunday Times

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.