Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in. I thought this was just a brilliant novel by john fowles. Psychological thrillers of more recent times, like descent and intensity probably found their roots with the dark character study in books like the collector. John fowles lived in lyme regis in dorset on the south coast of england and was for a period curator of the local museum. His work reflects the influence of jeanpaul sartre and albert camus, among others after leaving oxford university, fowles taught english at a school on the greek island of spetses, a sojourn that. His work reflects the influence of jeanpaul sartre and albert camus, among others. I believe that john fowles ranks among the halfdozen finest novelists of his generation. He recalled the english suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional.
A selfportrait in ideas 1964, a collection of essays reflecting fowless views on such subjects as. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, frederick, as well as that of miranda, the captive. The collector by john fowles 3 annie always said it was my mother that drove him to drink. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in london and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. The collector is a 1963 thriller novel by english author john fowles, in his literary debut. Fowles was born in leighonsea in essex, england, the son of gladys may richards and robert john fowles. Descargue como pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. My cousin mabel once told me when we were kids, in a quarrel she was a woman of the streets who went off with a foreigner. They never told me what really happened, but she went off soon after and left me with aunt annie, she only wanted an easy time.
Of his childhood, fowles said i have tried to escape ever since. 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. With the goal of spurring more interest in this seminal figure, i am commemorating the 10th anniversary of fowless death by publishing 5 online essays on his work. With the goal of spurring more interest in this seminal figure, i am commemorating the 10th anniversary of fowles s death by publishing 5 online essays on his work. Robert fowles came from a family of middleclass merchants of london.