Daniel Martin, eroul ce da numele romanului lui John Fowles, este un dramaturg britanic devenit scenarist la Hollywood, care in urma acestei metamorfoze ajunge sa se indoiasca de propriile valori si principii. Revenit in Anglia pentru a-si vizita un prieten bolnav, Daniel Martin se confrunta cu trecutul sau ingropat, redescoperindu-si adevarata identitate. Secrete de familie, intrebari ramase fara raspuns, fuga de responsabilitate si de povara realitatii, dar si evolutia Angliei postbelice, disparitia unei societati si relatiile dintre fapt si fictiune formeaza substanta unui roman ce ramine una dintre realizarile remarcabile ale lui Fowles. Daniel Martin reactualizeaza toate virtutile romanului proteic: naratiunea incitanta, culoarea, dramatismul, pasiunea, simtul peisajului si, mai presus...
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Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age. ...
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"For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review " The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art."--Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift "The most original argument for wilderness prese...
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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs.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. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor, and so gain her freedom....
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A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes...
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As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works of John Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, The Ebony Tower is released to coincide with the paperback publication of Wormholes, the author's acclaimed collection of essays and occasional writings. The Ebony Tower, which comprises a novella, three stories, and a translation of a medieval French tale, echoes themes from Fowles's widely praised and bestselling novels as it probes the fitful relations between love and hat...
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John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers. Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unawar...
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