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Note: The following are synopses of John Fowles’ seven novels, taken with permission from Professor James Aubrey’s excellent 1991 book John Fowles: A Reference Companion. This book contains a biography of Fowles, along with explanatory notes about obscure details and references in all of Fowles’ novels.
John Robert Fowles was born March 31, 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town located about 40 miles from London in the county of Essex, England. He recalls the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles says “I have tried to escape ever since.”.
John Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on March 31, 1926. He attended Bedford School (1940–1944) and then served nearly two years in the Royal Marines. After his four years at Oxford (New College), where he read in French and received a B. A. (Honors) in 1950, Fowles turned away from his conservative upper-middle-class background toward a new freedom and a trying decade of apprenticeship as a writer.
Jun 26, 2020 · John Fowles’s (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) fiction has one theme: the quest of his protagonists for self-knowledge. Such a quest is not easy in the modern world because, as many other modern authors have shown, the contemporary quester is cut off from the traditions and rituals of the past that gave people….
John Fowles. 3.97. 81,395 ratings6,282 reviews. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.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.
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John Robert Fowles (Leigh-on-Sea, 1926. március 31. – Lyme Regis, 2005. november 5.) angol regényíró, munkássága a modernizmus és a posztmodern közé helyezhető, 'melyre többek között Jean-Paul Sartre és Albert Camus is hatással volt.
