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Overview

As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, two major works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with the publication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collection of essays and occasional writings.

Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic.

In A Maggot, originally published in 1985, Fowles reaches back to the eighteenth century to offer readers a glimpse into the future. Time magazine called the result "hypnotic....A remarkable achievement. Part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama....An immensely rich and readable novel".

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By giving characters their freedom, Fowles also liberates himself from the tyranny of the rigid plan; but there remains a more basic limitation of fiction, and from this Fowles frees himself by means of his double ending: "The novelist is still a god," Fowles says in The French Lieutenant's Woman, "since he creates (and not even the most aleatory avant-garde modern novel has managed to extirpate its author completely); what has changed is that we are no longer the gods of the Victorian image, omniscient and decreeing; but in the new theological image, with freedom our first principle, not authority." Thus, although the novel seems in many ways a Victorian novel, the author reminds the reader that it is not; it is actually a novel of our time, with "this self-consciousness about the processes of art [that] is a hallmark of much twentieth-century fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates
Dazzling…audacious…highly rewarding….A remarkable, original work in which at least two visions operate simultaneously, the one Victorian and melodramatic, the other modern and wise. An outlandish achievement!
—Washington Post Book World
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Edward T. Chase
A miracle of sorts….an absorbingly dramatic love story…and a virtuoso stylistic performance.
—New Republic
Webster Schott
A wonder of contemporary fiction….It meets the simplest, oldest, and least fashionable test of excellence. You never want it to end.
—Life

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316291163
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 9/1/1998
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 120,880
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

John Fowles (1926-2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK. The success of his first novel, published in 1963, allowed him to devote all his time to writing. He spent the last decades of his life on the southern coast of England in the small harbor town of Lyme Regis.

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They stopped. He stared at the black figure, "But I'm intrigued. Who is this French lieutenant?"

"A man she is said to have . . ."

"Fallen in love b&nwith?"

"Worse than that."

"And he abandoned her? There is a child?"

"No. I think no child. It is all gossip."

"But what is she doing there?"

"They say she waits for him to return."
—from The French Lieutenant's Woman

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 15, 2002

    Amazing and Beautiful!

    John Fowles 'The French Lieutenants Woman' was the first book I've read in a long time that did not seem trite and false. Humanity exudes from every character explored and the greater ideas of love, freedom, and identity make this book a must-read. I have always been slightly enamoured of 19th-century Britain and this novel explores many of the contradictions of that era. A beautiful love story for the Romantic and an amazing thought-provoker for the Thinker.

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  • Posted February 20, 2011

    very very good

    It is a little slow at the start, but this is a very good novel... great characters, a very engaging voice, and it is very provocative.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 26, 2001

    One of the great books of all times!

    This book delivers just about everything a book can: complex ideas, a compelling and surprising plot, beautiful language, subtle eroticism and passion, and historical context. Absolutely fantastic!

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