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The French Lieutenant's Woman (Reading Guide Edition)

The French Lieutenant's Woman (Reading Guide Edition)

by JohnFowles (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Edition: Limited e.
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0099497077
ISBN 13: 9780099497073
Book Overview: One of 15 limited edition Vintage Future Classics published to celebrate Vintage's 15th birthday. The 15 titles were voted for by reading groups all over the UK as being books that would still be read in 100 years time.

Media Reviews
* 'Brilliant - an artist of great imaginative power' - Sunday Times * 'A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again' - New Statesman * 'A brilliant success. It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling' - Financial Times * 'Compulsively readable' - Irish Times
Author Bio
John Fowles was born in England in 1926 and educated at Bedford School and Oxford University. He won international recognition with his first published title. The Collector (1963), being immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power. This reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works, including The Magus (1966) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). John Fowles died in 2005.