LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john fowles

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  • Mantissa
    John Fowles
    Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn’t remember his wife or his children’s names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity and calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment... In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we...
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    18,12 €

  • Martine
    Jean-Jacques Bernard / John Fowles
    The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just back from fighting in Syria. He joins her under the tree, and a tragic love story begins. Often compared to Chekhov, and much admired by Harold Pinter, Jean-Jacques Bernard creates a ...
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    18,70 €

  • The Journals
    John Fowles
    The first volume of John Fowles’s Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of The Collector and The Magus and leaving London behind to live in a remote house near Lyme Regis. This final volume charts the rewards and struggles of his continuing literary career but at the same time reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind the out...
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    22,86 €

  • The Collector
    John Fowles / Mark Healey
    John Fowles’s classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. Frederick Clegg appears to be an ordinary, slightly shabby clerk. Winning a fortune in the lottery he buys a remote country house, and goes about furnishing it with everything he thinks a beautiful woman could desire.1 woman, 1 man ...
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    20,86 €

  • The Journals Volume 1
    John Fowles
    In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel The Collector. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep faithfully over the next half century. Written with an unsparing honesty and forthrightness it reveals the inner thoughts and creat...
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    24,37 €

  • The Aristos
    John Fowles
    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 posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos ’of a person or thing the best or most ex...
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    18,12 €

  • The Tree
    John Fowles
    In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist John Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent in our traditional urge to categorise to tame and ultimately to possess the landscape. This acquisitive drive leads to alienation and an antagonism to the apparent disorder and randomness of the natu...
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    19,53 €

  • Wormholes
    John Fowles
    Here for the first time is a riveting collection of Fowles’s fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963 ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries autobiographical statements memoirs and musings. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued preoccupied or delighted Fowles throughout his life; it is a rich m...
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    23,97 €